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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1694300, member: 19463"]Copyright March 1999 at the end. Certainly this is worth the half hour to watch but it is hardly what I would title a History of Roman Coins. Much of the time is taken up with clips from old movies and deals with cultural history but there are some nice shots of a hoard in place and a conservator using a Dremel tool to polish the coins. I suppose it makes no difference since the coins will spend eternity in a museum basement now? It is well covered how the amount of coins issued grew during the third century and how the amount of silver in each fell. It might have been nice to do the math to compare how the total silver in the coinage compared and the effect this had on the purchasing power of a gram of silver but this is only a half hour piece designed for people who know nothing about coins and history so it is really a great success for what it was meant to accomplish. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for posting the link.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1694300, member: 19463"]Copyright March 1999 at the end. Certainly this is worth the half hour to watch but it is hardly what I would title a History of Roman Coins. Much of the time is taken up with clips from old movies and deals with cultural history but there are some nice shots of a hoard in place and a conservator using a Dremel tool to polish the coins. I suppose it makes no difference since the coins will spend eternity in a museum basement now? It is well covered how the amount of coins issued grew during the third century and how the amount of silver in each fell. It might have been nice to do the math to compare how the total silver in the coinage compared and the effect this had on the purchasing power of a gram of silver but this is only a half hour piece designed for people who know nothing about coins and history so it is really a great success for what it was meant to accomplish. Thank you for posting the link.[/QUOTE]
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