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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2891164, member: 57495&quot;]I do like thinking that this may in fact have been the case here.&nbsp; At the very least, it&#039;s a fun story to weave around the coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve not read the book you reference, but I think some of what&#039;s mentioned here was more likely the case during the Republic than the Empire.&nbsp; Even then, not all moneyers were from Patrician families.&nbsp; They stopped getting their names on coins during the reign of Augustus, and by the time of Aurelian, Felicissimus, the fellow who had overall control of the mints and finances, was apparently a slave (or to my mind more likely a freedman, but referred to as the &#039;lowliest of slaves&#039; by Aurelian because he had been running a a well-organized racket of silver-thieving under the emperor&#039;s nose).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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