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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4830815, member: 85693&quot;]Bags of coins indeed! </p><p><br /></p><p>From Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In the past the word &#039;follis&#039; was used to describe a large <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze" rel="nofollow">bronze</a> Roman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin" rel="nofollow">coin</a> introduced in about 294 (the actual name of this coin is unknown <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follis#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follis#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>) at the time of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coinage_reform_of_Diocletian&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coinage_reform_of_Diocletian&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow">coinage reform of Diocletian</a>. It weighed about 10 grams and was about 4% silver, mostly as a thin layer on the surface. <b>However, later studies have shown that this is wrong, and that this coin may have been known as a &#039;</b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nummus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nummus" rel="nofollow"><b>nummus</b></a><b>&#039;. The word <i>follis</i> means bag (usually made of leather) in Latin, and there is evidence that this term was used in antiquity for a </b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(device)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(device)" rel="nofollow"><b>sealed</b></a><b> bag containing a specific amount of coinage</b>....&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follis" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follis</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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