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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2317013, member: 19463"]The lack of an IIII sestertius for so long brings up a point I fail to understand. The Republic had a lot AE denominations from semuncia to as but was slow to see a need for change between the as and the quinarius. Even of the smaller series, eight asses is a handful and quinarii are not common enough to have been all of the answer. The hundred years between the revaluation to 16 as denarii and the start of a few larger bronzes in the Imperatorial period would seem to have needed a coin I'm not seeing. Is this like the US abandoning the half dollar which was a major circulating item when I was young?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2317013, member: 19463"]The lack of an IIII sestertius for so long brings up a point I fail to understand. The Republic had a lot AE denominations from semuncia to as but was slow to see a need for change between the as and the quinarius. Even of the smaller series, eight asses is a handful and quinarii are not common enough to have been all of the answer. The hundred years between the revaluation to 16 as denarii and the start of a few larger bronzes in the Imperatorial period would seem to have needed a coin I'm not seeing. Is this like the US abandoning the half dollar which was a major circulating item when I was young?[/QUOTE]
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