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<p>[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3939564, member: 80804"]There are theories (there are <i>many</i> theories, but some of the most plausible) explaining the existence of so-called "Limes Denarii" (I'll explain another time why this name is both ridiculous and impossible, although I'm afraid the name is now permanently stuck on this particular class of coin) concerning how they might have been created and used officially in border/garrison/war zone areas. These very faithful copies of denarii, primarily of the Severans, cast in low-grade billon or potin and occasionally found "silvered", used to be a scarce curiosity last century. Since the late 90's and with the enormous stock of coins entering the market at that time and since, they have become fairly common. Rather than being, necessarily, local copies of the circulating coinage, these might have been officially produced as scrip for soldiers' use and/or were circulated as tokens in place of bullion-based coin for which they would, eventually, be exchanged. The idea being that this could prevent large quantities of high-value bullion coin from falling into the hands of the "barbarians at the gates" - or whatever the enemy of the day may have been - and could be used to de-stabilize and/or interfere with normal commerce. </p><p>An example of a so-called "Limes Denarius" of Septimius Severus:</p><p><img src="http://old.stoa.org/albums/Chaos-and-the/03_Sept_Sev_Denarius_Pax.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="http://old.stoa.org/gallery/Chaos-and-the/03_Sept_Sev_Denarius_Pax?full=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://old.stoa.org/gallery/Chaos-and-the/03_Sept_Sev_Denarius_Pax?full=1" rel="nofollow">http://old.stoa.org/gallery/Chaos-and-the/03_Sept_Sev_Denarius_Pax?full=1</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3939564, member: 80804"]There are theories (there are [I]many[/I] theories, but some of the most plausible) explaining the existence of so-called "Limes Denarii" (I'll explain another time why this name is both ridiculous and impossible, although I'm afraid the name is now permanently stuck on this particular class of coin) concerning how they might have been created and used officially in border/garrison/war zone areas. These very faithful copies of denarii, primarily of the Severans, cast in low-grade billon or potin and occasionally found "silvered", used to be a scarce curiosity last century. Since the late 90's and with the enormous stock of coins entering the market at that time and since, they have become fairly common. Rather than being, necessarily, local copies of the circulating coinage, these might have been officially produced as scrip for soldiers' use and/or were circulated as tokens in place of bullion-based coin for which they would, eventually, be exchanged. The idea being that this could prevent large quantities of high-value bullion coin from falling into the hands of the "barbarians at the gates" - or whatever the enemy of the day may have been - and could be used to de-stabilize and/or interfere with normal commerce. An example of a so-called "Limes Denarius" of Septimius Severus: [IMG]http://old.stoa.org/albums/Chaos-and-the/03_Sept_Sev_Denarius_Pax.sized.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://old.stoa.org/gallery/Chaos-and-the/03_Sept_Sev_Denarius_Pax?full=1[/URL][/QUOTE]
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