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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 4114399, member: 72790&quot;]On the reference to the Roman historian Herodian and tampering with the coinage. His reference in Herodian, History 7.3.3, is cryptic because he is assigning responsibility for monetary problems to emperors using nefarious means to supply military needs at the expense of the business community. You will have a hard time trying to pull this info up by conducting an internet search because once you write &quot;Herodian and coinage&quot; you will be swamped with references to the Jewish coinage of the Herods. However I have an on line article for you that cites Herodian the Historian (who wrote in Greek, by the way, not Latin). The author is Colin P. Elliott, &quot;The Acceptance and Value of Roman Silver Coinage in the Second and Third Centuries A.D. I found it on line from JSTOR and you can download it from there. It originally appeared in the Numismatic Chronicle, 1966, Vol. 174 pp. 129-152. For the once token brass being pulled out of circulation and hoarded you might want to try &quot;The Imperial Roman Economy, Hoarding, Gresham&#039;s law and All That&quot; put up on Historia. </p><p><br /></p><p>The one best publication I have found on this is, &quot;Coinage in the Roman Economy&quot;, 300 BC to AD 700 by Kenneth W. Harl. It is an excellent source, especially for the metrology of the coinage. For the hoarding of the token bronze go to p. 135 but if you can , get and read the whole book. It is a real page turner, not at all dry or abstract. For anyone interested in this topic I think Harl&#039;s book the absolute bet out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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