![]() “In recent years, several workshops were discovered in Ukraine, in which false denarii were produced. Myzgin said: "We believe that in the first centuries of our era, in the east of the Empire, the exchange of goods using money - denarii - took place more often than it was thought. The coins were silver plated or made of an alloy that was supposed to resemble silver.' Kyrylo Myzgin/Facebookĭr. Kyrylo Myzgin (pictured) who are looking into the case told PAP: 'It turned out that some of them are fake. The findings suggest that Roman coins were used as a currency quite commonly instead of bartering, even in the lands of barbarians. ![]() "One denarius is worth more than a first century legionary earned in a day," adds Dymowski. ![]() The tiny coins were deemed valuable due to the metal with which they were made. The coins were individual pieces of art, minted with hand-made stamps. On the eastern fringes of the Roman Empire, from the present day east Germany, through Poland, Ukraine and up to western Russia, denarii were used very commonly. The coins were silver plated or made of an alloy that was supposed to resemble silver." Kyrylo Myzgin is looking into the case told PAP: “It turned out that some of them are fake. Arkadiusz Dymowski, who together with Dr. ![]() The everyday shopper in Roman times would have a hard time telling the real money from the fake. Up until now, historians were convinced the coins came from the Empire itself. Hundreds thousands of silver Roman denarii have been found in the areas inhabited by Goths and Vandals in the beginning of this era. Thousands of coins dating back to the Roman era could be the work of First Century counterfeiters, it has been claimed.Īrcheologists from the University of Warsaw have been analysing the coins produced outside of the empire in today’s Poland, Ukraine and Belarus and have concluded that they are fake. Archaeologists suspect, that up to one fourth of coins found in Poland could be fake, though it is hard to estimate the forgery’s scale. ![]()
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