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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3185669, member: 19463&quot;]I have long had a feeling that the large number of fourrees from this period could be explained in several ways but I see no way we will ever prove anything in this regard. </p><p><br /></p><p>#1 When you have a payroll to meet, you need to meet that payroll even though you are short on the silver to do it right.&nbsp; Giving soldiers coins that have a bit less intrinsic value might go over better than not giving them anything.&nbsp; Soldiers would spend the fourrees in town placing merchants in the position of accepting them or telling the big guy with a bigger knife that you won&#039;t sell him what he wants.</p><p><br /></p><p>#2&nbsp; When you are fighting a civil war or running for office against an opponent, what would be wrong with releasing into circulation a few thousand &#039;bad&#039; coins with the other leader&#039;s picture on them?&nbsp; After they circulate a few weeks and start to fail (show core), what is bad about people thinking your opponent is a crook?&nbsp;&nbsp; I made up these stories.&nbsp; Are they wrong?&nbsp; We can not prove anything.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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