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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 1268792, member: 5682&quot;]I appreciate everyone&#039;s input on this issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book suggests that the 52,500 coins of the hoard weighed about 350 lbs. Although the coins were waterlogged, let&#039;s be conservative and assume that 50,000 of these mostly bronze coins (with a mere patina of silver) weighed 300 lbs.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the coins were produced at a rate of 5 million a week, that is conservatively 30,000 lbs of coinage each week.</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep in mind that this is a rogue breakaway empire (the Romano-Gallic Empire) which was faced with all the problems of the Roman Empire of the third century: rebellion, inflation, barbarian incursions, plague, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let us assume that the Romano-Gallic empire had the production facilities, trained craftsmen, and raw materials to produce this prodigious number of coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>One can only image an intact distribution network to disperse this huge number of coins throughout a breakaway empire during this time of social and political turmoil.</p><p><br /></p><p>Very thought provoking.</p><p><br /></p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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