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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4552747, member: 19463&quot;]I believe a lot of the &#039;need&#039; for a made up name was that some earlier thinkers could not use &#039;double denarius&#039; for coins more like the weight of a denarius and a half.&nbsp; Whether or not they had serious doubt about the tariff of the new coin, I can not say.&nbsp; Caracalla was the perfect emperor to introduce an overvalued denomination.&nbsp; He was not the kind of guy you would want to question when he said that this was worth two!&nbsp; I would be quite willing to stop using&nbsp; &#039;antoninianus&#039; if everyone else would promise to stop using &#039;aurelianus&#039;, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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