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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8107169, member: 115909&quot;]Yeah for sure. They are TINY.</p><p><br /></p><p>What’s even crazier is that as tiny as they are they were still a substantial amount of wealth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Losing one (which probably happened often) would be a painful financial loss.</p><p><br /></p><p>But probably not financial ruin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I imagine there was a point where people complained about how easy they are to use so the government decided to make a larger coin of less precious metals such as the ~4 gram silver coins we see all over the ancient world (denarius, drachma, dinar etc.,).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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