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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4197656, member: 93416&quot;]Actually, it seem to me more like the relationship between Byzantium and Venice.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Guptas were a more hierarchical and hieratic&nbsp; inland agrarian culture and favoured a high value gold standard coins, the Western Satraps more ocean traders and favoured more commercially useful smaller silver.&nbsp; When the Guptas conquered the Western Satraps they kept the region separate as a monetary zone and tried to continue the local silver standard - but wrecked it after a few generations.</p><p><br /></p><p>The situation was near exactly the reverse in the West as&nbsp; recall - it was the the maritime Venetians who conquered the more agrarian Byzantines, but I do not recall it turned out well for the Byz&nbsp; currency in that case either</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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