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<p>[QUOTE="Multatuli, post: 3148538, member: 89266"]Great topic!</p><p>I believe that the case of continuous circulation of a monetary standard that has really lasted for centuries, is still the chinese coin wu zhu.</p><p>But I don't think it's really unlikely that some coins have lingered any longer. There are accounts of medieval treasures from the 11th-12th century containing Roman denarius in between. The value was more related to silver content than to the prevailing monetary standard, at least in our illiterate medieval Europe.</p><p>I believe that many of the LRBs in circulation still in lost places of the interior of France in the nineteenth century have been more like the role of tokens than as currency itself. Probably found at the time, I don't think they were circulating uninterruptedly for more than 1500 years.</p><p>I 'm aware of a small treasure found in Portugal by a personal friend of LRB in which there were also some asses and dupondii from twelve caesars period. Did they circulate in this Roman province during the time of barbarian invasions, in a period of complete economic and social chaos? What, in fact, would be the official currency?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Multatuli, post: 3148538, member: 89266"]Great topic! I believe that the case of continuous circulation of a monetary standard that has really lasted for centuries, is still the chinese coin wu zhu. But I don't think it's really unlikely that some coins have lingered any longer. There are accounts of medieval treasures from the 11th-12th century containing Roman denarius in between. The value was more related to silver content than to the prevailing monetary standard, at least in our illiterate medieval Europe. I believe that many of the LRBs in circulation still in lost places of the interior of France in the nineteenth century have been more like the role of tokens than as currency itself. Probably found at the time, I don't think they were circulating uninterruptedly for more than 1500 years. I 'm aware of a small treasure found in Portugal by a personal friend of LRB in which there were also some asses and dupondii from twelve caesars period. Did they circulate in this Roman province during the time of barbarian invasions, in a period of complete economic and social chaos? What, in fact, would be the official currency?[/QUOTE]
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