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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3659466, member: 98035"]The long circulation of Antony's legionary is well attested - they were the lowest-purity denarius until Nero's time, and then again until Commodus. Gresham's law - if you have to spend a denariua, you'll keep your 95% fine Domitian and spend the 75% fine Antony. The Reka Devnia hoard (last coin was an antoninianus of Decius) had several, and Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus chose to issue restitution copies of the coin, famously modifying AVG on the original to AVGVR to avoid confusion and reinforce that Antony was NOT emperor.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember a few months back there was a thread about a money pot found in a tavern in Pompeii, which unsurprisingly contained a large number of 1st century Roman Imperial coins, but also a stray Republican AE. I can't remember the source, but I have also read that there were a large number of pre-Roman bronze coins in circulation at Pompeii.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3659466, member: 98035"]The long circulation of Antony's legionary is well attested - they were the lowest-purity denarius until Nero's time, and then again until Commodus. Gresham's law - if you have to spend a denariua, you'll keep your 95% fine Domitian and spend the 75% fine Antony. The Reka Devnia hoard (last coin was an antoninianus of Decius) had several, and Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus chose to issue restitution copies of the coin, famously modifying AVG on the original to AVGVR to avoid confusion and reinforce that Antony was NOT emperor. I remember a few months back there was a thread about a money pot found in a tavern in Pompeii, which unsurprisingly contained a large number of 1st century Roman Imperial coins, but also a stray Republican AE. I can't remember the source, but I have also read that there were a large number of pre-Roman bronze coins in circulation at Pompeii.[/QUOTE]
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