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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4766373, member: 111037&quot;]This is a very good point actually. With such close geographic proximity you would have expected some kind of influence, but not, the Roman coinage of that period and even later was primitive at best. Anyone knows why? Could it be that they simply didn&#039;t care much about coinage and they saw the skill and effort their neighbours were putting on coins as unnecessary?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, to break it down think of standard Ancient Greece as the Greek mainland and islands defined by today&#039;s borders plus the Aegean coastline (Ionia) that is now in modern Turkey. Magna Greacia were the Greek colonies to the west, mainly situated in Sicily and southern Italy. There were some other Greek colonised pockets in areas like the Balcans and the Black sea, and of course all the Hellenistic conquests that came much later. Not sure what is the terminology for those.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER] that Rhegium tetradrachm is pure art <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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