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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AussieCollector, post: 3090604, member: 81093&quot;]I had thought that Byzantium coinage was the preferred currency of trade for much of Europe until the Venetians (as the trade power in Western Europe) decided to ditch it and produce their own coins (which were silver, not gold) in the late 1200s/early 1300s.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that last line in the book seems to discount that understanding.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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