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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1359786, member: 26302&quot;]Actually, for contorniates the theory was that using a coin with the emperor&#039;s face to use their was disrespectful to the emperor. So effectively you would buy a token at the door and then use that token inside the business once you decided....well whatever. </p><p><br /></p><p>I seriously doubt it could ever be a circulating token. Remember that bronze coinage seignorage was a major revenue source for the emperor. He sure as heck is not going to allow these places to start taking a cut of this profit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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