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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3015337, member: 82322"]Pliny the Elder, <i><a href="http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=PerseusLatinTexts&query=Plin.%20Nat.&getid=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=PerseusLatinTexts&query=Plin.%20Nat.&getid=1" rel="nofollow">Natural History</a> </i>book 33 chapter 46</p><p><br /></p><p>"... in spurious coin there is an alloy of copper employed. ... It was in consequence of these frauds that a method was devised of assaying the denarius: the law ordaining, which was so much to the taste of the plebeians, that in every quarter of the City there was a full-length statue erected in honour of Marius Gratidianus. It is truly marvellous, that in this art, and in this only, the various methods of falsification should be made a study: for the sample of <b>the false denarius is now an object of careful examination, and people absolutely buy the counterfeit coin at the price of many genuine ones!</b>"</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=PerseusLatinTexts&getid=1&query=Plin.%20Nat.%2033.46" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=PerseusLatinTexts&getid=1&query=Plin.%20Nat.%2033.46" rel="nofollow">http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=PerseusLatinTexts&getid=1&query=Plin. Nat. 33.46</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3015337, member: 82322"]Pliny the Elder, [I][URL='http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=PerseusLatinTexts&query=Plin.%20Nat.&getid=1']Natural History[/URL] [/I]book 33 chapter 46 "... in spurious coin there is an alloy of copper employed. ... It was in consequence of these frauds that a method was devised of assaying the denarius: the law ordaining, which was so much to the taste of the plebeians, that in every quarter of the City there was a full-length statue erected in honour of Marius Gratidianus. It is truly marvellous, that in this art, and in this only, the various methods of falsification should be made a study: for the sample of [B]the false denarius is now an object of careful examination, and people absolutely buy the counterfeit coin at the price of many genuine ones![/B]" [url]http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=PerseusLatinTexts&getid=1&query=Plin.%20Nat.%2033.46[/url][/QUOTE]
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