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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3174830, member: 74282&quot;]I don&#039;t know much about studies of the later silvers but I have seen a handful of examples said to have been found in Dacia and surrounding areas up to the reign of Trajan when Rome finally conquered the region but I&#039;ve seen far fewer imitations of Imperial coins than Republican coins. A few such Imperial imitations are published on Phil Davis&#039;s website <a href="http://rrimitations.ancients.info/imperial.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrimitations.ancients.info/imperial.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. It&#039;s of course very hard to date the imitations themselves but the in the hoards I&#039;ve seen, both published and unpublished, from Serbia, Romania, Hungary, etc. the latest official Roman issues in them tend to be of the Imperatorial period or of the reign of Augustus and these issues often exhibit a good bit of wear, sometimes even what seems to be decades of wear suggesting that these imitations were minted and circulated into at least the first few decades of the Imperial period but I can&#039;t quite explain why so few of the imitations from Dacia and surrounding areas actually imitate Imperial coins. Perhaps less Imperial coins were imported and thus, less were available for the local engravers?</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, one definite pattern I have noticed just from market data(i.e. eBay) is that a huge uptick in imitations seems to be associated with the Antonines and many of these imitations are found in Ukraine, Russia and other surrounding countries which seems to suggest to me that at least some of these later imitations were minted in this area rather than Dacia and Pannonia where many of these earlier imitations were minted. I know that there has been some work done to study these later imitations but much of it is inaccessible to me due to language barriers so I don&#039;t quite know the extent of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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