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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 5409143, member: 56653&quot;]It&#039;s a certain period - the early 200s to around 230 - that you see the middle and lower Danube area importing massive quantities of Nicaea coinage. At first it might seem weird, but there are things to be taken under consideration:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. although the Severan period is very copious in silver denarii, copper-based coinage from the Imperial mint remains scarce at least until the 220s throughout the Roman world</p><p><br /></p><p>2. on the limes silver and golds tends to be hoarded and/or repurposed rather than kept as currency, which only adds to the coinage penury</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Nicaea did seem to mint A LOT; to get a scale, even rare occurrences such as Alexander Caesar are not that rare from Nicaea and rather well spread out.</p><p><br /></p><p>This specimen for instance comes from a collection gathered around western Pannonia-Raetia and is orichalcum rather than the regular copperish alloy. Why didn&#039;t these provinces get their much-needed cash from Moesia Inferior, which had its peak in coin-minting during the Severan period, but rather went for the Bythinian coinage of Nicaea and why did Nicaea mint so much during the late Severan period remains something of a mystery.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1234219[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/severus-alexander-as-caesar-from-nicaea.366879/#post-4871646" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/severus-alexander-as-caesar-from-nicaea.366879/#post-4871646">post</a> I made last year about Alexander Caesar from Nicaea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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