Bronze of the Silk Road – Eight-Coin Boxed Collection
This curated set features eight authentic bronze coins issued by civilizations and kingdoms along the legendary Silk Road, the ancient trade network that linked East and West for over a thousand years.
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Historical Significance:
The Silk Road was not a single road but a vast web of trade routes stretching from China through Persia and India to the Mediterranean, connecting cities as distant and storied as Xanadu, Samarkand, Herat, Tyre, and Alexandria. Along these paths flowed silk, spices, and precious goods—but also ideas, technologies, religions, and art that transformed every culture they touched.
The coins in this collection are more than currency—they are witnesses to exchange on a global scale. Bronze pieces from diverse polities demonstrate how merchants, soldiers, and pilgrims carried the weight of empire in their purses, while empires themselves broadcast authority through imagery, inscriptions, and symbols struck into their coinage.
By holding them together in one collection, we see how coinage served as the lifeblood of the Silk Road, enabling the commerce that built bridges between China, Persia, India, Arabia, and Rome. These coins stand as tangible artifacts of one of history’s greatest stories of connection, innovation, and cultural fusion.
Bronze of the Silk Road – Eight-Coin Boxed Collection
This curated set features eight authentic bronze coins issued by civilizations and kingdoms along the legendary Silk Road, the ancient trade network that linked East and West for over a thousand years.
Technical Details:
Historical Significance:
The Silk Road was not a single road but a vast web of trade routes stretching from China through Persia and India to the Mediterranean, connecting cities as distant and storied as Xanadu, Samarkand, Herat, Tyre, and Alexandria. Along these paths flowed silk, spices, and precious goods—but also ideas, technologies, religions, and art that transformed every culture they touched.
The coins in this collection are more than currency—they are witnesses to exchange on a global scale. Bronze pieces from diverse polities demonstrate how merchants, soldiers, and pilgrims carried the weight of empire in their purses, while empires themselves broadcast authority through imagery, inscriptions, and symbols struck into their coinage.
By holding them together in one collection, we see how coinage served as the lifeblood of the Silk Road, enabling the commerce that built bridges between China, Persia, India, Arabia, and Rome. These coins stand as tangible artifacts of one of history’s greatest stories of connection, innovation, and cultural fusion.
