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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8232447, member: 110504&quot;]Thanks for that, [USER=77226]@Orange Julius[/USER] --both for lightening the tone, generally, and for your obsevation about late 2nd century coins turning up in Ukraine.&nbsp; That was news to me, but it set off a few synapses.&nbsp; </p><p>From here, it&#039;s an easy guess that, between the Roman Empire being as deeply involved in, well, transcontinental trade as it was, and Ukraine being kind of &#039;off the beaten path&#039; (who was there at the time, besides Scythians? --no offense to Scythians), the coins could have wound up there after a good interval of circulation in broadly adjacent parts of the world.&nbsp; ...Whether the Empire itself or other, neighboring countries on its periphery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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