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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2950456, member: 19463&quot;]4th century = 300rds</p><p>We don&#039;t know how long after the original the copies were made.&nbsp; I&#039;d guess within a decade or so but that is a guess.&nbsp;&nbsp; I prefer the theory that people on the edges of the empire were aware of how coins helped in trade but did not have access to enough &#039;real&#039; ones so they made copies to circulate in commerce.&nbsp; I reserve &#039;counterfeit&#039; for coin made to fool someone into thinking that the coin was official but barbarous is a higher class item: &quot;money of necessity&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the US, we had California gold, Hard Times and Civil War tokens when there were coin shortages. I don&#039;t call those counterfeits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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