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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8034283, member: 84905&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Well the coins are probably not Sarmatian (which is an ethnic designation) and I am not sure if Chernyakhov culture (which is an archaeological designation) is really correct either. </p><p>One ethnic group that Russian sources mention are the Sindi or Sind, which may be an Iranian people like the Sarmatians. Another line of arguments sees these coins as the product of Roman soldiers, who used them as some kind of money substitutes. </p><p>I don&#039;t think that the latter theory has many followers these days. In any case they are too early to be attributed to the Goths, who reached the Taman region only after these coins had been made.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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