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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 25516418, member: 128351&quot;]This purse is very interesting. This unfortunate woman carried of her money what she could take in a hurry, probably a purse. The gold is mostly recent. But the silver denarii are almost all republican, 6 of them dating back from the late 3rd or early 2nd c. BC ! These silver coins, some being c. 250 years old and of course very worn, were still circulating in Italy... For us it would be like if we had in our wallets coins of Louis XV or George III and we could spend them at the supermarket.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nero reduced the weight of the denarius, but older denarii were so worn that they probably matched the weight of new coins. In fact, weight and purity of silver coinage did not matter. In Arabia and Judaea, for example, Roman denarii and Arabia-drachms were considered equivalent, though Arabia-drachms contained much less silver than Roman denarii. The Jewish rebels of the second revolt used to overstrike the two kinds of coins to mint their own drachms.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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