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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1453778, member: 26302&quot;]The Romans had extensive trade ties with India. Ships travelled between India and modern day Eritrea, (they could not sail up the Red Sea with prevailing winds against them), and good transported across land to the Nile for passage to Alexandria. </p><p><br /></p><p>Actually trade with India was a huge gold drain on the Romans. The Indians really didn&#039;t want anything the Romans had, so gold was transferred. Trade with China was more through middlemen, with goods exchanged, so less of a gold drain to the Romans.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are series of contemporary counterfeit Roman coins found in India, so evidently not all Roman gold was melted right away, some must have circulated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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