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Message:: [QUOTE="Tejas, post: 4384236, member: 84905"]The Chernyakhov culture was multi-ethnic and included various Sarmatians, such as Alans and Jazygians as well as  Germanic tribes such as the Goths and Gepids. Unless we know the exact findspot of a coin, I think any ethnic attribution icomplete speculation. Since the Goths were the dominant ethnic group from about AD 250 onwards, I prefer to attribute imitations found in western Ukraine, Eastern Poland, Modavia and Romania to them. However, the Goths arrived on the Taman Peninsula way too late to be considered the originators of the Taman imitations (i.e. the "monety neizvestnogo naroda = the coins of the unknown people") BTW the imitation of Antoninus Pius is wonderful and I think the attriution to "Sarmatians or Goths" is plausible.[/QUOTE]