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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8231690, member: 26430&quot;]Sounds like either an interesting method of slightly raising taxes relative to expenditures or possibly embezzlement. Reminds me of the argument that one original incentive for cities/kingdoms to issue coinage was that they could levy a small fee on each coin struck. Also by coining in electrum, with an uncertain quantity of gold, they could more effectively control the money supply and market.</p><p><br /></p><p>But it also reminds somewhat of those denarii struck under Nero with the small pellets of base metal inside that he was supposedly using to siphon cash! (If you ever see one that&#039;s been cut to reveal the core, they&#039;re very interesting.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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