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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3659399, member: 72790"]Unfortunately I cannot cite the source but I recall that in the period around 100 AD, about the time of Trajan, there were still some of the Legionary denarii in circulation. That would mean that some of those coins were well over a century old and still about, probably because they were somewhat debased when first issued circa 31 BC and their silver content by the end of the First Century AD matched those of the currently being issued coins of Trajan. When I started collecting coins (1957) we had plenty of buffalo nickels still around and the occasional Barber silver coins and Indian head cents, and of course a never ending supply of Morgan dollars at the local banks for the asking. </p><p><br /></p><p>From the wear I have seen on some of the provincial Roman bronzes and some of the big Roman brass pieces they look like they had circulated somewhere by someone for well over a hundred years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3659399, member: 72790"]Unfortunately I cannot cite the source but I recall that in the period around 100 AD, about the time of Trajan, there were still some of the Legionary denarii in circulation. That would mean that some of those coins were well over a century old and still about, probably because they were somewhat debased when first issued circa 31 BC and their silver content by the end of the First Century AD matched those of the currently being issued coins of Trajan. When I started collecting coins (1957) we had plenty of buffalo nickels still around and the occasional Barber silver coins and Indian head cents, and of course a never ending supply of Morgan dollars at the local banks for the asking. From the wear I have seen on some of the provincial Roman bronzes and some of the big Roman brass pieces they look like they had circulated somewhere by someone for well over a hundred years.[/QUOTE]
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