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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 3247834, member: 76086&quot;]Ken Harl in his book <i>Coinage in the Roman Economy</i> postulates that clipping was done officially due to the continuous and tumultuous reforms of the period.&nbsp; This would make sense as such wholesale clipping of the coinage would not likely be tolerated.&nbsp; I have often wondered how daily commerce would have worked.&nbsp; How would a merchant evaluate a coin of any period still being used?&nbsp; I imagine it would have worked just fine on a local level, but when considering interstate or inter-provincial commerce coinage would have been weighed for larger transactions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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