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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ambr0zie, post: 8077235, member: 80952&quot;]I do not have a &quot;Sarmatian&quot; reverse but I have a Marcus Aurelius denarius where the emperor has a relevant title </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1402038[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus Aurelius AD 161-180</p><p>AR Denarius</p><p>175-176</p><p>Obv: M ANTONINVS AVG GERM <b>SARM</b>, head of Marcus Aurelius, laureate, right</p><p>Rev: TR P XXX IMP VIII COS III, Mars, helmeted, naked except for cloak flying behind, advancing right, holding transverse spear in right hand and trophy, sloped over left shoulder, in left hand</p><p>Ref: RIC 349</p><p>Weight: 3.23g</p><p><br /></p><p>I first read about Sarmatians many years ago on a forum from Moldova. </p><p>I was going to describe some modern historical events, but this is not relevant. What I read there, and some people were quite adamant, was that Sarmatians were proto-slavic people using Russian language. And the Moldavian people were formed after the free Dacians from that territory mixed with the Sarmatians. </p><p>As opposed to Romanian people, formed after Roman Empire conquered Dacia. </p><p><br /></p><p>Brainwash + propaganda, but at least they seemed very convinced.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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