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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1629592, member: 19463&quot;]Can someone explain how this coin helped fulfill the requirements if the law?&nbsp; A semis and a triens is 10/12 of an as (1/2+1/3 or 6 uncia plus 4uncia).&nbsp; I have no trouble seeing how such a price might make it nice to have minor coins to make change (perhaps a hexas so you could make change for an as presented to buy a modius).&nbsp; This broken denarius is about 10/12 of a whole coin so dreamers can say it was broken on purpose to buy 16 modii of grain but this really makes no sense.&nbsp; At that price a denarius would buy 19.2 modii hardly making me think that it would be a high demand coin for even multiple transactions.&nbsp; Who has a handle of Roman economics and can explain why the Senate thought it necessary to issue this coin?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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