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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 4597736, member: 84905&quot;]There is no reason why a merchant should not accept an undersized bronze coin at face value as long as he expected everybody else to accept it in payment. Bronze coins did not circulate as money because of their instrinsic metal value, like silver and gold. Merchants (and everybody else) would have rejected undersized silver and gold, but not necessarily bronze, which is in fact why we have &quot;tons&quot; of undersized bronze coins from the 3rd century. Saying that a ancient merchant would not have accepted an undersized bronze coin at face value, is like saying that a modern merchant would not accept a dirty or torn dollar bill at face value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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