Comment on Where Roman coins have been found
fubarx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Doesn’t show the Han/Byzantine trade: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations
Roman coins have been found as far east as Vietnam and Japan.
Comment on Where Roman coins have been found
fubarx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Doesn’t show the Han/Byzantine trade: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations
Roman coins have been found as far east as Vietnam and Japan.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It looks like coins have been found on the sea routes that avoided the Parthian/Sassanian empires, but not on the overland routes. I’m guessing merchants exchanged their coins on the Roman/Persian frontier, beyond which the Iranian coinage was the local standard anyway; but in places like southern India (south of the Kushans and Guptas) which was politically fractured, Roman coinage became the de facto currency of exchange.