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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 1263650, member: 5682&quot;]I&#039;m currently doing a review of a book for another web site.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have difficulty from this statement made in the book:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;According to one estimate, it is possible that under Victorinus and Tetricus, the [Romano-Gallic] Empire was making around five to six million coins a week.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I find this difficult to grasp. Assuming that people were working 24 hours a day (which is highly unlikely), that is more than 714,000 coin a day and more than 29,000 coins an hour. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Being that the dies lasted about 20,000 coins, that&#039;s 500 dies a week (obverse and reverse together). That would be a lot of work for the engravers.</p><p>(I can&#039;t remember whether the obverse (anvil die) lasted longer about 20,000 coins and the reverse die (the hammer die) lasted about 10,000 coins. Or is it the other way? Either way, I will be conservative and say 20,000.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I find this unlikely. Although coins minted in the Romano-Gallic Empire are sometimes crudely struck, I just don&#039;t accept the numbers. Any thoughts?</p><p><br /></p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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