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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3336384, member: 87200&quot;]Diocletian tried an edict of Maximum Wages and Prices to halt inflation but it was largely ignored as it was unenforceable, even though the penalty for abrogation was death. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]883698[/ATTACH] </p><p>photo credit: Matthias Kabel Wikimedia Commons, Pergamon Museum, Berlin</p><p><br /></p><p>By 308 or so we start seeing &quot;reduced&quot; folles of around 5 grams and with smaller flans. Here&#039;s an example of Maximinus Daia, Alexandria mint</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]883703[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]883704[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>By the time when Constantine and Licinius both ruled we are down to about 3 grams for a folle. By 350 the larger centenionalis was introduced by Constantius II, but these gradually faded away until Julian II introduced the popular large bronze coins featuring the Apis bull (or Taurus).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]883708[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]883709[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>After that, coins as large as 5 grams or so were struck up until the time of Arcadius and Honorius, when everything shifted to the tiny AE4 denomination. The relationships between the small bronze coins and silver and gold coinage is basically unknown by this time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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