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<p>[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 4758473, member: 96635"]It indeed was a pure economic reason. When Philip I came to rule Antioch, he started to recycle the tetradrachms of his predecessors and reissued them with his own types, so there were barely any tetradrachms of his competitors circulating. Besides propaganda, he reissued them with a lighter weight of around 0.35g (hence the low eight of ~15.5g). By doing so, Philip’s treasury profited by about half an obol every time an older tetradrachm was recoined.</p><p>Since the Philip I tetradrachms was the primary coinage that was circulating, it was a logic choice for the Romans to continue that coin type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 4758473, member: 96635"]It indeed was a pure economic reason. When Philip I came to rule Antioch, he started to recycle the tetradrachms of his predecessors and reissued them with his own types, so there were barely any tetradrachms of his competitors circulating. Besides propaganda, he reissued them with a lighter weight of around 0.35g (hence the low eight of ~15.5g). By doing so, Philip’s treasury profited by about half an obol every time an older tetradrachm was recoined. Since the Philip I tetradrachms was the primary coinage that was circulating, it was a logic choice for the Romans to continue that coin type.[/QUOTE]
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