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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7310112, member: 115909&quot;]I was just looking at some old gold coins online like the Persian Daric, Roman Aureus and Byzantine Solidus and I’m wondering if these gold coins were possessed by the average citizen of the time?</p><p><br /></p><p>Or was it only the rich and prominent who ever possessed or used gold coins and the average people stuck with silver &amp; bronze and other lesser metals?</p><p><br /></p><p>I do know that gold coins were NOT used often in day to day transactions (because they were too valuable to be used to buy things like a loaf of bread or stay at an inn) but what about like an average person’s life savings? Maybe they would keep it as a couple gold coins rather than a small bag of silver buried in the garden?</p><p><br /></p><p>If only the rich had them does that mean collectors with Ancient gold coins are more likely to own coins held by prominent citizens (like nobility &amp; military generals) of the time period than silver coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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