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<p>[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3271852, member: 80804"]Not sure whether this will serve to encourage or discourage this discussion, but I can tell you that there are over 600 cities and issuing authorities known in the Classical world as the sources of Roman Provincial coinage, most of which is at least arguably Greek, if later in the pageant of Hellenism.</p><p>Presumably, given how fragmented "Greek" society was with a different city- or nation-state founded in every cove, harbor, estuary or landing in the Mediterannean - there were far more than the 600+ cities that struck local types with Imperial portraits and Greek legends in the Roman era which may have been issuers of earlier, more purely Greek coin types before the ascendance of Rome. If you were seriously going to try to cite them all, this could be a very long thread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3271852, member: 80804"]Not sure whether this will serve to encourage or discourage this discussion, but I can tell you that there are over 600 cities and issuing authorities known in the Classical world as the sources of Roman Provincial coinage, most of which is at least arguably Greek, if later in the pageant of Hellenism. Presumably, given how fragmented "Greek" society was with a different city- or nation-state founded in every cove, harbor, estuary or landing in the Mediterannean - there were far more than the 600+ cities that struck local types with Imperial portraits and Greek legends in the Roman era which may have been issuers of earlier, more purely Greek coin types before the ascendance of Rome. If you were seriously going to try to cite them all, this could be a very long thread.[/QUOTE]
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