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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24481784, member: 128351&quot;]Greece is not claiming the wonderful coins of Syracuse, though they are typical Greek coins and not Roman ones. </p><p><br /></p><p>This aureus is historically linked to an important war taking place in the Roman province of Macedon, now Northern Greece. It would never have circulated in Rome or Italy, where it would have seen as a provocation, a blasphemy, and immediately been melted! Only the Oriental Romans and the Oriental client kings supported Brutus and Cassius...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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