Where Roman coins have been found

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• CatpainTypo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d have guessed more would have been found in southern Italy.

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  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can’t find them in a place that you don’t look.

    Rather, that part of Italy might not be interested in looking (or might not be publicizing when they do).

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure they would.

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  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The reason for that is that people in the heart of the empire didn’t feel the need to hoard coins and bury them since they weren’t nearly as exposed to barbarian threats (and others) like the areas on the fringes of the empire.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Dude the vast majority of coins found weren’t buried intentionally.

      By some estimates there were BILLIONS of Roman coins minted. They’re absolutely all over the place.

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wow, they did not fuck with Ireland

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  • MoonManKipper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nothing worth pinching

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• tatann@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  One of the dots shouldn’t there, just saying

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  Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix

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• drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Anybody got some juicy (scientific) context for SW India and Sri Lanka? Commerce I suppose but in details, what, how and when? And how are you BTW?

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  • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A fascinating primary source is the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea(link to a complete translation in the article).

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  • fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s a book covering it:

    en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Golden_Road:_How_Ancient_I…

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  • zarixwolfgang@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I guess pepper is largely in the “what” mix

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Spices.

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wish I could see a map like this with the finds colored by mint date.

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I live kind of in the middle of several finds in an area without any. I wonder if that means there aren’t any, or no one has bothered to seriously search for them.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Grab your shovel

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    • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Already have a detector and permit. But I still need permission from the farmers/landowners and that’s trickier.

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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe it’s up to you to start digging

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• cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i like how they skipped over saudi arabia but got to yemen some how

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  • d00ery@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wonder if it’s down to sea fairing and trade primarily.

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    • Taniwha420@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, that seems to be the most likely explanation for how the coins got to India too. Egypt was the entry point into the Roman Empire, and there were maritime trade routes from the Red Sea to India.

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Possible that there aren’t as many archeologic diggings there

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  • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Aden in Yemen has been a major port for the trade route to India since at least the time of the ancient Greeks.

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• Brainsploosh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Very cool map I haven’t seen before, thank you!

  It’s so strange to me that the Romans went through central Europe, were they just taking the land route to the sea nations up north?

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Much of the coinage went as pay to soldiers stationed along the Danube and the Rhine, who then traded with people on both sides of the border.

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• drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Amazing, thanks a lot.

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• buzz86us@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well after Rome fell the currency was worthless, what else would you do with them?

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  • tychosmoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The coinage had intrinsic value, being made of metals with a commodity value. So it’s not like holding a paper banknote when a government collapses. People would still have used them to hoard savings, for trade and melted down as a source of precious metals.

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• UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Southern Italy has always been poor. Water, infrastructure and so on

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  • FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The source of the map is not provided in the OOP.

    I think it’s very likely this map is biased in reporting.

    I’ve heard roman coins are really common in some southern regions of italy. Perhaps to the point where finding them isn’t reported, and doesn’t end up on this map.

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