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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsden, post: 1440836, member: 38010&quot;]I&#039;d be amazed if many ancient coins were issued in the millions.</p><p>The overall population of humans simply wasn&#039;t that high...and...</p><p>the more wars they fought, the quicker they debased their coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having replaced the debased denarius with the antoninianus, the</p><p>Romans managed to debase even the new coin this fast in just a </p><p>few decades of the disastrous 3rd century AD... </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Decline_of_the_antoninianus.jpg/800px-Decline_of_the_antoninianus.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Old-fashioned as they were, dem Romans still kept a small quantity of precious metal in their coins.&nbsp; Unlike <i>some </i>countries I could mention <img src="http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i251/benzomatic/Emoticons/icon_smile_tongue.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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