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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2316973, member: 57495&quot;]Gordian III ruled for six years, which was plenty of time to mint a massive number of coins to pay off the soldiers, finance military campaigns, and otherwise grease the wheels of economy.&nbsp; Claudius II barely made it past two years, but his coins are awfully common as well.&nbsp; Within half a dozen years of GIII&#039;s death, the fineness of the antoninianus started falling badly... good reason for those holding on to these nice shiny GIII&#039;s coins to hoard them.&nbsp; What we have now probably comes from a number of large hoards.&nbsp; The Great Dorchester Hoard alone had 8000+ (many of which I believe ended up dispersed into the collector market).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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