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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3246776, member: 10461&quot;]Well, if it&#039;s <i>not</i> a barbarous imitation, the answer can be found in their history.&nbsp; By the 5th century, as they neared their fall, the quality of the bronze coinage had declined so much that it&#039;s really kind of hard to tell the &quot;official&quot; ones from the barbarous ones (for me, anyway).&nbsp; They&#039;re almost <i>all</i> crude after a certain point.</p><p><br /></p><p>While this is not aesthetically pleasing, it can be historically interesting, I suppose.&nbsp; You can certainly see the decline of the Western empire mirrored in its coins, which got progressively smaller and cruder as they slid toward the end.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Higher standards were maintained for the gold, however.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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