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<p>[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4689623, member: 51347"]Thank you, you tied a few loose ends in my mind. </p><p><br /></p><p>Token or Fiat monies make a lot more sense. The Chinese figured that out Centuries before, but now I can put Romanoi coinage into better perspective now. The use of low-cost Bronze enables them to create a lot of currency for the everyday populace. "Just pound the coins out, they just represent the value we put on them."</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the Chinese pour casted the coins, and never had to take the ADDED step of hammering them. The Western World probably still pour casted the flans, then heated them again, before hammering a design. Low cost / high seigniorage to the Chinese!</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, I am still so disappointed with their crude designs, compared to the legacy they had of Classical Greek and earlier Roman designs... just so wrong to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153222[/ATTACH]</p><p>RO Justinian I 527-565 CE AE30 Folles 12.2g 40 Nummi M monogram[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4689623, member: 51347"]Thank you, you tied a few loose ends in my mind. Token or Fiat monies make a lot more sense. The Chinese figured that out Centuries before, but now I can put Romanoi coinage into better perspective now. The use of low-cost Bronze enables them to create a lot of currency for the everyday populace. "Just pound the coins out, they just represent the value we put on them." Also, the Chinese pour casted the coins, and never had to take the ADDED step of hammering them. The Western World probably still pour casted the flans, then heated them again, before hammering a design. Low cost / high seigniorage to the Chinese! Unfortunately, I am still so disappointed with their crude designs, compared to the legacy they had of Classical Greek and earlier Roman designs... just so wrong to me. [ATTACH=full]1153222[/ATTACH] RO Justinian I 527-565 CE AE30 Folles 12.2g 40 Nummi M monogram[/QUOTE]
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