It’s actually even surprising that they haven’t been found in more countries. I mean there probably have been a ton of them in most of these countries painted white, but they just haven’t found any yet.
The sheer size of the Roman Empire and the time it existed must have allowed for some coins to gradually make it everywhere in the Old World.
You just made me think about Roman Empire again, thank you wery much.
Why not in Americant? Why not in Austrialias? A bit discriminating, idn’t it?
Oman and Somalia seem like notable exceptions. Lack of archaeological digs?
Brazil is missing here.
When you consider how long ancient coins were in circulation, it doesn’t seem that strange. Coins were used by weight and metal content regardless of who issued them and when. Roman-Indian trade was massive for example so its not that surprising Japanese and Chinese trades would’ve eventually have gotten some Roman coinage in their dealings on westward trade routes.
Scandinavian mercenaries or auxiliaries were paid in Roman coin that they often brought back with them too, there’s a lot of ways currency could travel.
This infographic is rubbish. A couple of coins found in Eastern China so inner Mongolia and Tibet gets coloured in. Any Roman coins in Kamchatka? No? But there were some.in Sochi or somewhere like that so the whole of Russia is yellow.
This doesn’t really tell me anything.
So buried Roman treasure in the Gobi desert that has yet to be found?
Hoist the land sails lads.
We knew they had trading posts in the orient and that they were trading with Chinese
Put it together with distant merchants that could’ve reached some of them or traded with people that did, mash it up for couple of centuries and I’m honestly surprised it’s just these places
They also have found Roman coins and imitated artifacts based on them in Óc Eo, a site near lower Mekong delta. It’s a strong candidate for historic port city Cattigara, described by Greco-Roman geographer Claudius Ptolemy. On an interesting note, there was another port city further up north in Jiaozhi (also modern-day Vietnam) where Roman diplomats took rest before venturing into Han China. Unfortunately, it wasn’t successful, but we can see how the world was connected far back in the antiquity.
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It’s actually even surprising that they haven’t been found in more countries. I mean there probably have been a ton of them in most of these countries painted white, but they just haven’t found any yet.
The sheer size of the Roman Empire and the time it existed must have allowed for some coins to gradually make it everywhere in the Old World.
You just made me think about Roman Empire again, thank you wery much.
Why not in Americant? Why not in Austrialias? A bit discriminating, idn’t it?
Oman and Somalia seem like notable exceptions. Lack of archaeological digs?
Brazil is missing here.
When you consider how long ancient coins were in circulation, it doesn’t seem that strange. Coins were used by weight and metal content regardless of who issued them and when. Roman-Indian trade was massive for example so its not that surprising Japanese and Chinese trades would’ve eventually have gotten some Roman coinage in their dealings on westward trade routes.
Scandinavian mercenaries or auxiliaries were paid in Roman coin that they often brought back with them too, there’s a lot of ways currency could travel.
This infographic is rubbish. A couple of coins found in Eastern China so inner Mongolia and Tibet gets coloured in. Any Roman coins in Kamchatka? No? But there were some.in Sochi or somewhere like that so the whole of Russia is yellow.
This doesn’t really tell me anything.
So buried Roman treasure in the Gobi desert that has yet to be found?
Hoist the land sails lads.
We knew they had trading posts in the orient and that they were trading with Chinese
Put it together with distant merchants that could’ve reached some of them or traded with people that did, mash it up for couple of centuries and I’m honestly surprised it’s just these places
They also have found Roman coins and imitated artifacts based on them in Óc Eo, a site near lower Mekong delta. It’s a strong candidate for historic port city Cattigara, described by Greco-Roman geographer Claudius Ptolemy. On an interesting note, there was another port city further up north in Jiaozhi (also modern-day Vietnam) where Roman diplomats took rest before venturing into Han China. Unfortunately, it wasn’t successful, but we can see how the world was connected far back in the antiquity.
http://www.mikoflohr.org/blog/2020/02/11/global-romans-6-fake-roman-coins-from-the-mekong-delta/
The lack of Sudan and Ethiopia is strange as well. Makuria, Alodia and Axum were ancient empires that could’ve traded with Rome, I think.
How often did you trade with the Roman Empire?
Heatmap of amount of coins found in an area would’ve been so sick
It’s like the Romans knew about post WW2 boarders.