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Find Of Roman Coins Shows Ancient Britons In A New Light
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 2-26-2007
Posted on 02/25/2007 6:07:08 PM PST by blam
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posted on
02/25/2007 6:07:12 PM PST
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blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/25/2007 6:07:37 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
"It proves that there was a lot more going on between the continent and ourselves,"It proves that one coin made it to the island.
To: blam
Could have been from a Roman who was a coin collector.In which case the dating had better come from something other than the coin!
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posted on
02/25/2007 6:16:09 PM PST
by
Nateman
(Socialism , the real global menace threatening mankind!)
To: blam
Very cool!
Are there pics?
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posted on
02/25/2007 6:17:57 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: Nateman
If the coin is stamped 146 B.C., it's probably a fake.
To: BenLurkin
"Are there pics?" Not yet. They'll probably turn up tomorrow on the archaeological sites.
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posted on
02/25/2007 6:22:54 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
The Pheonicians were trading in Cornwall centuries before the Romans. What's the big deal?
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posted on
02/25/2007 6:30:01 PM PST
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since 1854
(http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com)
To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
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posted on
02/25/2007 6:40:10 PM PST
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: blam
Dating from 146 BC, it shows how ancient Britons were trading with the Romans well before the country was conquered in AD 43. It shows nothing of the sort. It only shows that Roman coins had made it to Briton. Coins are coins, a medium of exchange. Somebody who traded with Romans, in turn traded with somebody, and the end of the chain winds up in Briton
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posted on
02/25/2007 6:45:14 PM PST
by
SauronOfMordor
(Never try to teach a pig to sing -- it wastes your time and it annoys the pig)
To: PzLdr
Probably got swept up by a fish that eventually got caught by a fisherman.
Or recon for Marklar.
To: blam
Not so shocking.
Caesar says the Gauls had ships with no oars that dwarfed their triremes.
To: blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 49th; ...
Thanks Blam. Dating from 146 BC, it shows how ancient Britons were trading with the Romans well before the country was conquered in AD 43... Cornwall had trade significance because of the tin and copper it produced, but that economic activity is not well documented before the third century AD. Coins were relatively rare, of high value and often stayed in circulation for more than 100 years which makes dating the find harder.
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02/25/2007 7:04:54 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Why would this be a surprise? We know the non-Roman world was more sophisticated than the Roman historians were willing to concede. The Brits has something valuable to sell - tin - and Roman world was quite willing to buy it. And there were no Socialists or mercantilists around to try to stop world trade.
To: scrabblehack
Right--anything using Arabic numerals at that time would have to be a fake.
The date is from the name of the official (monetal or moneyer) C. Antestius. T.R.S. Broughton's Magistrates of the Roman Republic puts him between 137 and 134 B.C., but that work was published in 1952, and perhaps new information has come out since then to show that he was actually in office in 146 B.C.
To: blam
It further shows that Rome used diplomacy and made deals with foreign leaders whenever possible. Propaganda and diplomacy have been emphasized in Latin culture throughout recorded history. Recent UK columns are a more contemporary example of the same.
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02/25/2007 7:28:49 PM PST
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familyop
To: scrabblehack
***If the coin is stamped 146 B.C., it's probably a fake. ***
It's legit if it's BCE.;-)
To: colorado tanker
It's not surprising to me, except insofar that valuable items are generally only lost to the one who loses them, and scooped up by whomever happens along. :')
A year or so ago there was an expression of surprise that Roman stuff from before Emperor Claudius, but Caesar had already established connections on the island before his two short forays. Much of Britain was conquered during Claudius' reign. Agricola nearly finished up in Scotland but was recalled for execution by Nero. Nero was overthrown and three others in the same year before Vespasian, Claudius' artillery man in Britain, succeeded to the purple.
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02/25/2007 7:34:59 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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02/25/2007 7:35:14 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: blam
It may prove that Romans from a later period carried old coins.
Duh!
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posted on
02/25/2007 7:39:58 PM PST
by
Poser
(Willing to fight for oil)
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