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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 4384465, member: 74834&quot;]I saw a very clear and convincing article about this type of coins - along your lines, [USER=84905]@Tejas[/USER] - in the vol. 2006, Nr. 7 issue of <a href="http://community.vcoins.com/the-celator-vol-20-no-07/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://community.vcoins.com/the-celator-vol-20-no-07/" rel="nofollow">The Celator</a>, it came up in a search for Taman on Academia.edu. But Academia is not free (although I think it&#039;s very much worth its price, you can find so many detailed numismatic articles on all sorts of subjects there) and Vcoins is - where you find all the issues of <i>The Celator</i>, and what a nice and interesting coin magazine was <i>The Celator</i>. See page 22-26, with good illustrations.</p><p><br /></p><p>For myself, I translated the introduction of the Kleshchinov book, with a lot of help from Google Translate (that camera function is most helpful!) and a little from my Russian dictionary. Very interesting. By the way, Vladimir Kleshchinov was one of the editors of Sergeev&#039;s beautiful book about barbarous imitations from the whole of the Soviet Union (Sergeev died in 1998), that I mentioned above.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kleshchinov shows some useful hypotheses: he thinks the coins were minted for payments in a part of the world where Sarmatians lived, among Roman-paid legionaries, and their dependents in the period from about 160-350 AD. So, the five more or less clear stages of these coins took almost 200 years to be produced. An eye-opener for me was the first stage: the recognizable imitations of Roman denarii, like this imitation of Marcus Aurelius, from the first page of the coins in Kleshchinov&#039;s little book.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1104500[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a lot like this coin, that was reportedly found near Kursk at the Russia-Ukraine border, one of a large hoard of imitations and (worn) regular Roman coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1104502[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Like you say, it depends much about where a coin was found - the Taman coinage must have been used locally in the first place. I hope to hear more about this line of coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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