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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 4546630, member: 57463&quot;]I am not sure what you mean by that. Any coinage was accepted pretty much anywhere until the modern era of hard national boundaries. Even so, when the Eastern European nations broke out from under the USSR, Slovenia, for example, adopted the Deutschmark. In colonial times, in America, Islamic gold was known and accepted. It came to America by way of pirates. As we know, Mexican and other Spanish silver and gold was legal tender here until 1857. The only reasons that Mexico did not have a reciprocal situation is that they were massive exporters of silver coin and their economy was always in a shambles. So, they did not need to rely on a plethora of foreign coinages. The US Mint published a report on the values of foreign gold and silver coins. Reprints are common among numismatists.</p><p>(What&#039;s with the commas,,,,,?)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When I lived in Albuquerque in 2002-2003, a woman came to the coin club one night with a Roman coin. Her home was on the Rio Grande and she wondered how the coin came there. Before I could speak up, a couple of people pointed to the club president because he was a high school history teacher. He said that the coin was probably dropped by some pioneer and was not the result of Romans in New Mexico. I tried to talk to her, but she was satisfied and left. If you look at the distribution of Roman coin finds, they are not random, but clustered along the Eastern coast and rivers. When that coin was struck, the Rio Grande was wet all the way up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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