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<p>[QUOTE="rasiel, post: 1668142, member: 15452"]It's an interesting take for sure. I would have guessed something more banal like Cum Moneta H____ but this is where I'm clearly out of my league. In the other example we have the more established use of XXI to denote a 20 to 1 ratio which makes sense but feels awkward when looking at the actual weight relationships. I think the only thing that is truly obvious here is that the Roman tech for denoting mark of value was never more than crude. My own theory is that there was probably always policy to <i>not </i>commit too explicitly and just take it a day at a time since it was always easier to set these tariffed values orally or via posted edict at the time of manufacture and then recant as necessary later otherwise those XXIs could be used against the taxman at an inopportune moment after inflation had sapped their value - something definitely not to the advantage of the government.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ras[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rasiel, post: 1668142, member: 15452"]It's an interesting take for sure. I would have guessed something more banal like Cum Moneta H____ but this is where I'm clearly out of my league. In the other example we have the more established use of XXI to denote a 20 to 1 ratio which makes sense but feels awkward when looking at the actual weight relationships. I think the only thing that is truly obvious here is that the Roman tech for denoting mark of value was never more than crude. My own theory is that there was probably always policy to [I]not [/I]commit too explicitly and just take it a day at a time since it was always easier to set these tariffed values orally or via posted edict at the time of manufacture and then recant as necessary later otherwise those XXIs could be used against the taxman at an inopportune moment after inflation had sapped their value - something definitely not to the advantage of the government. Ras[/QUOTE]
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