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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3938750, member: 72790"]Thanks to both of you. I am somewhat more familiar with the various kinds of "occupation" currency of the 20th Century, though I have no idea what troops stationed in foreign countries use today. Perhaps credit cards. I have always just wondered what Roman troops serving in the Greek speaking eastern provinces of the Empire were paid in and whether such coins show up in the archaeological record of the Latin speaking West and whether this indicates that such coins were in general circulation outside the province of their issue. Modern archaeological findings of imperial denarii in Syria, or Bithynia or Cappadocia might not be unusual but finding coins from Antioch or Caesarea in Italy or Britain or Spain , depending on the frequency of such finds, might be an indication that somebody, troops or merchants, found that at least the silver issued in eastern mints, had empire wide circulation use. I wonder if anyone has done any research into this and what the research might show.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3938750, member: 72790"]Thanks to both of you. I am somewhat more familiar with the various kinds of "occupation" currency of the 20th Century, though I have no idea what troops stationed in foreign countries use today. Perhaps credit cards. I have always just wondered what Roman troops serving in the Greek speaking eastern provinces of the Empire were paid in and whether such coins show up in the archaeological record of the Latin speaking West and whether this indicates that such coins were in general circulation outside the province of their issue. Modern archaeological findings of imperial denarii in Syria, or Bithynia or Cappadocia might not be unusual but finding coins from Antioch or Caesarea in Italy or Britain or Spain , depending on the frequency of such finds, might be an indication that somebody, troops or merchants, found that at least the silver issued in eastern mints, had empire wide circulation use. I wonder if anyone has done any research into this and what the research might show.[/QUOTE]
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