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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 1749195, member: 44316&quot;][ATTACH=full]274763[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]274764[/ATTACH]</p><p>The countermarks were struck by the same people who minted the type, only a bit later. Nina Frolova, in &quot;On the monetary circulation of the Bosporus in the 3rd century BC&quot;, says this countermark began &quot;at the beginning of the 3rd century BC&quot; and mentions a &quot;crisis in monetary circulation&quot; for which numerous (mostly Russian) authors have proposed reasons from &quot;decline in external trade&quot; to &quot;war with the Scyths&quot; and &quot;shifting of value function from silver to gold.&quot; In other words, we don&#039;t know why.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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