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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus Maximus, post: 12463633, member: 73473&quot;]Exactly! Inflation was simply a symptom of the growing list of problems the Roman economy was accruing in the 3rd century. The Cyprian Plague in itself it said to have killed up to a fourth of the Roman army and left the most productive provinces of the Empire desolate. Increasingly mismanaged trade with India is said to have been a burden on the Imperial coffers as well. </p><p>We see that when Aurelian and Diocletian tried to introduce higher-quality coins that it did not automatically solve the inflation issue of the 3rd century. Indeed, it was not until the reigns of Valentinian I and Valens that inflation is able to be tackled. In 367 the Roman state scraped the use of billon coinage in favor of bronze coins that floated in relation to the silver and gold coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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