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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 4155357, member: 93416"]Thanks. We agree on most of this, but I take it you are suggesting that there were maybe plenty of 5th Roman coppers but nobody bothered to hoard them. Could be – but I make three points.</p><p><br /></p><p>1) In other contexts tiny c. 1g coppers were hoarded. I once saw 7,000 Ancient Hindu Ganapati Naga coins passing through London – I mentioned this to an Indian guy, and he replied he had seen “a barrel full” in India – sounds like a hoard of hundreds of thousands. China throws up big hoards of c. 1g copper coins too.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) The best way to test this specific suggestion is to look at stray finds - accidental losses – which ought to better represent actual circulation. And it does turn out that, since metal detecting started up, there are in general lots more very small coins lost in the ground and coming to market than we would have previously guessed. But has that happened on a big scale with small Roman 5th century coppers? Are there way more on sale now than there used to be? I never noticed it if so.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) If countries in the old Eastern Roman empire ran a reporting scheme like that in the UK we might answer this question easily. But turn on the news and you might think, like me, that that is just a pipe dream.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 4155357, member: 93416"]Thanks. We agree on most of this, but I take it you are suggesting that there were maybe plenty of 5th Roman coppers but nobody bothered to hoard them. Could be – but I make three points. 1) In other contexts tiny c. 1g coppers were hoarded. I once saw 7,000 Ancient Hindu Ganapati Naga coins passing through London – I mentioned this to an Indian guy, and he replied he had seen “a barrel full” in India – sounds like a hoard of hundreds of thousands. China throws up big hoards of c. 1g copper coins too. 2) The best way to test this specific suggestion is to look at stray finds - accidental losses – which ought to better represent actual circulation. And it does turn out that, since metal detecting started up, there are in general lots more very small coins lost in the ground and coming to market than we would have previously guessed. But has that happened on a big scale with small Roman 5th century coppers? Are there way more on sale now than there used to be? I never noticed it if so. 3) If countries in the old Eastern Roman empire ran a reporting scheme like that in the UK we might answer this question easily. But turn on the news and you might think, like me, that that is just a pipe dream. Rob T[/QUOTE]
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