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<p>[QUOTE="Neal, post: 3670528, member: 43872"]I don't have any facts, but I have a theory as to why banker's marks decreased in the later Empire. Perhaps it was for the same reason that there are almost never any marks on modern US coins, even pre-1965 silver. The coins, even silver coins, were given higher fiat value than precious metal value. There was no reason to test a coin's metal because it was relatively insignificant. That would be why many of the later Roman coins were silver plated yet circulated without test marks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Neal, post: 3670528, member: 43872"]I don't have any facts, but I have a theory as to why banker's marks decreased in the later Empire. Perhaps it was for the same reason that there are almost never any marks on modern US coins, even pre-1965 silver. The coins, even silver coins, were given higher fiat value than precious metal value. There was no reason to test a coin's metal because it was relatively insignificant. That would be why many of the later Roman coins were silver plated yet circulated without test marks.[/QUOTE]
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