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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1706546, member: 42773&quot;]I suspected as much. It seemed like a stretch to assume they were test pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hoover suggests that if they&#039;re not test pieces, there can only be two possibilities: they are emergency coinage, or tokens. I know you would add a third possibility, that they were in fact coins, but not necessarily emergency coins: that they could have been created by the less-wealthy class as legal tender, and possibly even officially sanctioned as such.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the possibility of emergency coinage, here&#039;s what Hoover has to say on it, taken from CCK...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It sounds like a lot of conjecture, but it does sound plausible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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