| Tango01 | 27 Sep 2016 10:41 p.m. PST |
"Coins issued in ancient Rome have been excavated from the ruins of a castle in a city in Okinawa Prefecture, the local education board said Monday, the first time such artifacts have been recovered from ruins in Japan. The education board of the city of Uruma said the four copper coins believed to date back to the Roman Empire in the third to fourth centuries were discovered in the ruins of Katsuren Castle, which existed from the 12th century to the 15th. Okinawa's trade with China and the Southeast Asian region was thriving at the time and the finding is "precious historical material suggesting a link between Okinawa and the Western world," the board said. Each coin measures 1.6 to 2 centimeters in diameter. The designs and patterns on both sides are unclear due to abrasion…"
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Dn Jackson  | 27 Sep 2016 11:05 p.m. PST |
Very cool, they must have been in circulation a long time. |
| 79thPA | 28 Sep 2016 5:30 a.m. PST |
I read this yesterday. It is interesting, as well as remarkable how far trade goods, etc. can travel across the world. |
| boy wundyr x | 28 Sep 2016 6:11 a.m. PST |
I think everyone's missing the obvious conclusion that the Romans must have colonized Japan, and the Japanese are really Romans. Both had emperors, both had soldiers with swords, spears, and bows, both had pretty ineffective cavalry, both Italy and Japan now make small but sporty cars, and both use a lot of pasta in their cooking. The answer was right in front of our eyes the whole time… |
| 15th Hussar | 28 Sep 2016 8:06 a.m. PST |
Hey What's a comin' a go Dome Arigato! |
| Zyphyr | 28 Sep 2016 8:41 a.m. PST |
The fact that they apparently also found a coin from 2 centuries AFTER the castle no longer existed makes me rather curious as to the timing on when these ended up there. |
| robert piepenbrink | 28 Sep 2016 9:10 a.m. PST |
Bronze coins, apparently, so no particular value as money that far from home. Every now and then you get hints that coin collecting is a very old hobby, and that there were networks of them even in times and places we have no record of the hobby. |
| GonerGonerGoner | 28 Sep 2016 10:34 a.m. PST |
Cowrie shells and Baltic amber turn up in lots of strange places as well. People like shiny pretty things. Not too surprising. |
| Frederick | 28 Sep 2016 11:48 a.m. PST |
Bloody Romans – all over the place; what did the Romans ever do for us anyway? |
| Zargon | 28 Sep 2016 12:43 p.m. PST |
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 20thmaine | 28 Sep 2016 1:27 p.m. PST |
Aqueducts. Don't forget the aqueducts. |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 28 Sep 2016 1:49 p.m. PST |
'I think everyone's missing the obvious conclusion that the Romans must have colonized Japan, and the Japanese are really Romans' No no no… link This proves that the Chinese colonised Britain, which means they must have colonised the rest of the Roman Empire, so those so-called Roman coins are actually Chinese, which means that the Japanese are Chinese which explains the physical similarities between the two races. We look different because of all the Goths and Saxons coming in on day trips. |
| 15th Hussar | 28 Sep 2016 2:58 p.m. PST |
And Mean Ass NUNS with Rulers! That's what the Romans did for us!!! Y'know…eventually, a few years after they kinda slumped a bit there…kinda. |
| boy wundyr x | 29 Sep 2016 7:27 a.m. PST |
I thought the Chinese were too busy colonizing North America and Australia. |
| Narcisista | 29 Sep 2016 6:07 p.m. PST |
Well, now they were colonizing Europe as well. I knew Gavin Menzies was a serious scholar… |
