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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4300041, member: 85693"]Thanks for sharing this - it is very interesting. A while back I posted some musings on why there are so many worn Roman denarii on eBay from the Ukraine. </p><p><br /></p><p>To quote myself: " I did some half-baked Internet research on Roman coins in the eastern Europe hinterlands - and I'm sorry I cannot link a source - I think it was from Google Books. There are a lot of Roman coins found out there in what used to be the hinterlands of the Roman Empire (or just beyond). What I found was that apparently around the turn of the 2nd-3rd centuries, a lot of subsidies were being paid to the barbarians and they would accept only good coin. No silver washed antoninii were accepted - and so the good coin (pre-Severan debasement) drifted outward. A similar process was happening to the East - think a cruddy AE antoninus of Gallienus vs. a big, good silver Sassanid drachm. In short, historically speaking, a lot of silver in Ukraine seems plausible. That this silver is pre-debasement denarii from the Antonines (with a lot of Trajan/Hadrian too) makes sense. It would also explain why very few denarii of the Severans are in these auctions - occasionally so, but not nearly as many as the Antonines. And no cruddy ants. of the Valerian+ era..."</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/need-a-grading-opinion-on-this-commodus.355505/page-2#post-4162628" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/need-a-grading-opinion-on-this-commodus.355505/page-2#post-4162628">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/need-a-grading-opinion-on-this-commodus.355505/page-2#post-4162628</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4300041, member: 85693"]Thanks for sharing this - it is very interesting. A while back I posted some musings on why there are so many worn Roman denarii on eBay from the Ukraine. To quote myself: " I did some half-baked Internet research on Roman coins in the eastern Europe hinterlands - and I'm sorry I cannot link a source - I think it was from Google Books. There are a lot of Roman coins found out there in what used to be the hinterlands of the Roman Empire (or just beyond). What I found was that apparently around the turn of the 2nd-3rd centuries, a lot of subsidies were being paid to the barbarians and they would accept only good coin. No silver washed antoninii were accepted - and so the good coin (pre-Severan debasement) drifted outward. A similar process was happening to the East - think a cruddy AE antoninus of Gallienus vs. a big, good silver Sassanid drachm. In short, historically speaking, a lot of silver in Ukraine seems plausible. That this silver is pre-debasement denarii from the Antonines (with a lot of Trajan/Hadrian too) makes sense. It would also explain why very few denarii of the Severans are in these auctions - occasionally so, but not nearly as many as the Antonines. And no cruddy ants. of the Valerian+ era..." [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/need-a-grading-opinion-on-this-commodus.355505/page-2#post-4162628[/URL][/QUOTE]
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