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<p>[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 6576704, member: 109923"]Technically, you could accept a Roman coin now as payment if you wanted to. I would! But in terms of what was in general circulation, hoards give you some idea of the mix of coins at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Galba Denarius, 68-69</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1264370[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Rome. Silver, 16x17mm, 3.03g (RCV I#2109).</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This Galba was in the Westbury-sub-Mendip Hoard, which by other coins in the hoard can be assumed to have been buried around 193AD. So the Galba had been circulating 125 years. The hoard contained coins from Marc Antony (32-31BC) to Septimius Severus (AD193), covering 225 years. But they were all silver denarii, so there was some rationale behind what was accepted.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Thruxton Hoard, buried around 402AD, all the coins were miliarenses and siliquas from the period 355 to 402AD (Constantius II to Arcadius). They weren't still using denarii or Constantinian bronzes, even though only 130 years had passed since the last denarius was struck (compared to 225 years for the oldest coins in the Westbury-sub-Mendip Hoard). They had presumably come out of circulation during the monetary reforms, either to be melted down or hoarded.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Arcadius Siliqua, 392-395</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1264379[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Treveri. Silver, 17mm, 1.3g (RIC IX Trier 106b var).</b> From the Thruxton Hoard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 6576704, member: 109923"]Technically, you could accept a Roman coin now as payment if you wanted to. I would! But in terms of what was in general circulation, hoards give you some idea of the mix of coins at the time. [B]Galba Denarius, 68-69[/B] [ATTACH=full]1264370[/ATTACH] [B]Rome. Silver, 16x17mm, 3.03g (RCV I#2109).[/B] This Galba was in the Westbury-sub-Mendip Hoard, which by other coins in the hoard can be assumed to have been buried around 193AD. So the Galba had been circulating 125 years. The hoard contained coins from Marc Antony (32-31BC) to Septimius Severus (AD193), covering 225 years. But they were all silver denarii, so there was some rationale behind what was accepted. In the Thruxton Hoard, buried around 402AD, all the coins were miliarenses and siliquas from the period 355 to 402AD (Constantius II to Arcadius). They weren't still using denarii or Constantinian bronzes, even though only 130 years had passed since the last denarius was struck (compared to 225 years for the oldest coins in the Westbury-sub-Mendip Hoard). They had presumably come out of circulation during the monetary reforms, either to be melted down or hoarded. [B]Arcadius Siliqua, 392-395[/B] [ATTACH=full]1264379[/ATTACH] [B]Treveri. Silver, 17mm, 1.3g (RIC IX Trier 106b var).[/B] From the Thruxton Hoard.[/QUOTE]
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