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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 3595292, member: 51347&quot;]I enjoyed Kenneth Harl&#039;s <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5yPDL0EykeAC&amp;pg=PA94" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5yPDL0EykeAC&amp;pg=PA94" rel="nofollow">Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p>I scooped this up from Wikipedia (yeah, I know, [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] ), so that I did not have to rewrite his comments.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Harl, the Denarius actually started around 312 BCE in Campana, to help finance the Via Appia and the Aqua Appia, having a weight around 6.8g. This was dubbed &quot;Heavy&quot; Denarius, as the Romans would have most likey called them DENARIUS as they were tarriffed at 10 Asses. Subsequent Denarii from approx 269 BCE down to 211 BCE were minted in Rome. The Reform of 211 changed the Denarius to approx 4.5g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]961311[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denarius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denarius" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denarius</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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