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<p>[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 24551341, member: 75482"]Perhaps "prestige objects" would have been a better phrase. Thousands of Roman coins have been found in Scandinavia, often holed for suspension or worked into jewelry.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder how many 2nd century Scandinavian farmers thought of the Romans as "brutish head-splitting barbarians"? More than a few, I suspect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 24551341, member: 75482"]Perhaps "prestige objects" would have been a better phrase. Thousands of Roman coins have been found in Scandinavia, often holed for suspension or worked into jewelry. I wonder how many 2nd century Scandinavian farmers thought of the Romans as "brutish head-splitting barbarians"? More than a few, I suspect.[/QUOTE]
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