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Message:: [QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 8296076, member: 85693"]Well put.  I know nothing for sure about any of this, but I've always thought that silver content of coinage being debased from say 95% to 89% would not really be noticed by the public.  Light weight and plated coins, on the other hand, would be noticed (all those RR banker's marks).  Here's one with all the plating stripped - from the post-90 B.C. timeframe - I'd bet somebody "jactare'd" this one after getting it in change! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> [ATTACH=full]1466984[/ATTACH] Roman Republic Fourrée DenariusM. Volteius M.f.(78 B.C.) Rome mint (imitation)Head of Bacchus right, wearing ivy wreath / Ceres in a biga drawn by two serpents, cornucopiae behind, [M.VOLTEI. M.F.] in exergue.Volteia 3; Crawford 385/3.(3.01 grams / 18 mm)eBay Dec. 2017   I was too young to notice, but after 90% silver coins were replaced by copper-nickel substitutes after 1964, the economy didn't tank (although I remember my grandma going through all her change and picking out the silver!).  Of course the 20th century USA economy is not really comparable to ancient Rome (all that paper we use!).[/QUOTE]