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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8297150, member: 19463&quot;]Am I correct that you see this use (iactabatur) meaning more negative than &#039;put out&#039; as in &#039;issued&#039; perhaps what we might say as &#039;dumped on the economy&#039;?&nbsp; Do you have other texts that distinguish between a coin issue of larger than usual size (&#039;flooded the market&#039; rather than &#039;released&#039;)?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Making no claim to anything approaching a scholarly study (and RR coins not being a particular interest of mine), it always struck me that the RR coinage as a whole showed the sort of variations one might expect if each issuing authority were allowed or required to hire staff or contract out coin production resulting in some issues being carefully produced, well struck from decent metal and others being slammed out on the theory that the requirement was to make coins in a certain quantity and it mattered not just how well it was done.&nbsp; This is just another example of the classic &#039;fast, cheap, good&#039; triangle where extending one leg will, by necessity, alter the other two. </p><p><br /></p><p>I see you are using different dates than I found when I did my photos.&nbsp; I make no effort to keep up with changes anymore.&nbsp; Of my four coins below, only one is fourree which strikes me as about right for my collection and the overall state of circulating coin in troubled times. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1467339[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1467340[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1467341[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1467342[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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