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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2468134, member: 75525&quot;]I like the ROMA in monogram. I find the monograms moneyers used interesting. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think the flow marks add to the coin. I think they speak to the moneyer trying to make the most coins out of one die for an issue that had a large number of dies. Rome was paying a lot of soldiers a couple of these a week during the social war, 91 to 88 BC. One estimate has the Roman army at 150,000 = about 17 million per year and the Italian army at 100,000.</p><p><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/republicanromanbattles/g/092807SocialWar.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/republicanromanbattles/g/092807SocialWar.htm" rel="nofollow">http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/republicanromanbattles/g/092807SocialWar.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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