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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1873243, member: 26302&quot;]You will never see a regular issue silver coin thaler sized, (size of a US silver dollar), in ancients. Silver was too precious. Heck, you never seen them anywhere in the world until the Joachimsthaler was introduced. It was only introduced because that area had huge silver mines and little access to gold. So their solution was to make huge silver coins. In many ways the US did the same with our massive mintage of Morgans. This was ONLY done because of the huge silver production coming out of the West. We had absolutely no need for these coins, they struck them and promptly put them in vaults since no one wanted them.</p><p><br /></p><p>In much the same way we have huge Ptolemaic bronzes. Egypt did not have silver mines, but had large copper mines, especially on Cyprus. So their colution was to strike huge copper coins instead of small silver one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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