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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7940817, member: 19463&quot;]It is never a good idea to say anything about how &#039;the Greeks&#039; or &#039;the Romans&#039; did anything.&nbsp; Both changed a great deal over time and place.&nbsp; &#039;Rome&#039; was not restricted to Italy for most of its history; &#039;Greek&#039; civilization and some of the finest &#039;Greek&#039; coins never were used in what is today Greece.&nbsp; Debasement was more common at a later date than what we think of as the highpoint of Greek coinage but the later &#039;Greek&#039; coins (AD period) were debased along with their Roman contemporaries.&nbsp; Ask yourself which is better: a coin of pure silver that is so small that it is hard to use or a coin that weighs ten times as much but has that same silver mixed into its alloy that is more practical for daily use.&nbsp; Fashions changed the answer to that question over the span of time and place.&nbsp; The US is coming up on 250 years since the revolution.&nbsp; Trajan Decius was 250 years from Caesar Augustus and Caesar Augustus was 250 years from the first Roman coins.&nbsp; (He was twice that remote from the first Greek coins.) How has the US changed in those 250 years?&nbsp; How how will it change in the next 250?&nbsp; My great great great great great great grandfather came to America during the Revolution (as a Hessian but he stayed). Most of us pity our great grandchildren and can&#039;t imaging having 6 greats. It is OK to ask how the Athenians of the last years of the 5th century BC did something but realize a question on &#039;the Greeks&#039; is a bit too general to carry meaning.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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