Coins In Lucknow Mus. Vol 01 [56 MB - IndianCoins.org

28 ROMANthe kind to have succeeded each other and taken place during the thirdand fourth centuries (Palestine did not cease to be a Roman provinceuntil the beginning of the seventh century), it is not unlikely that thesecoins may have been brought by them, and either from sufferingpersecution or oppression at the hands of the natives, they may haveburied these treasures for greater security or concealment but besides;the Jews, the Nestorian Christians may have been instrumental inconveying foreign coins to these countries. In 485 A.D., they obtaineda footing in Persia, whence they spread into almost every country ofthe East ;but I do not consider this theory entitled to so much considerationfrom the fact of the coins being found in greater numbers onor near to the sea coast, on which account it would assuredly be moreplausible to support the idea of their having been brought by theKomans from Egypt, or the Jews from Palestine, presuming the latterpeople in their emigration came either by way of the Red Sea or thePersian Gulf. "