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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4611940, member: 87200"]You make a good point about the Roman economy/prevalence of silver to strike coins. Gordian cranked them out to the extent that we call them roaches. One can imagine that the empire was not too impacted by inflation yet, which apparently kicked in around the time of the end of Gallus' reign. Gallienus and Valerian started out OK but within a few years had to severely debase the coinage. Meanwhile the bronze coins (and provincial bronzes) disappeared with the exception of closed-economy Egypt.</p><p><br /></p><p>Antoniniani.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1142232[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1142234[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1142236[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1142237[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1142238[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4611940, member: 87200"]You make a good point about the Roman economy/prevalence of silver to strike coins. Gordian cranked them out to the extent that we call them roaches. One can imagine that the empire was not too impacted by inflation yet, which apparently kicked in around the time of the end of Gallus' reign. Gallienus and Valerian started out OK but within a few years had to severely debase the coinage. Meanwhile the bronze coins (and provincial bronzes) disappeared with the exception of closed-economy Egypt. Antoniniani. [ATTACH=full]1142232[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1142234[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1142236[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1142237[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1142238[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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