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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andy, post: 30307, member: 645&quot;]&quot;How do we classify a &quot;coin&quot; struck by a Roman general who never received approval by the Senate before being defeated by a rival? The general was only that, just a soldier with a lot of temporary comrades, and not a &quot;government.&quot; Yet, his coins are still coins&quot;. Mike.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I remember my history correctly, The earlier Roman Generals were all from the ruling families of Rome and were responsible with raising, arming and paying their own soldiers. Especially when Rome was a &quot;Republic&quot;. The up side was that they got to keep most of the spoils. Why Julius Caesar himself might have been the biggest slave trader of all time with the Celtic POW&#039;s and others that he defeated, which made him from being rich to being the richest man in Rome before assuming his titles which then led to his death for he was becoming to powerful for the other &quot;ruling&quot; families. Now since these Generals were in effect Rome, they could mint their own coins to pay their own troops and their coins would be backed and represented by the might of Rome, which was their armies. So the Roman coin is in effect a &quot;Roman&quot; coin.</p><p>At least that is what I think<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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