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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;OutsiderSubtype, post: 5011844, member: 112457&quot;]Michael Grant&#039;s biography of Nero says that this temporary abandonment of copper coinage was motivated by an imperial monopoly on zinc. Zinc is a component of brass and thus using brass exclusively created an opportunity for further profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grant also says that hoard evidence demonstrates that people outside the Empire (Germans, etc) much preferred the coinage from before Nero&#039;s debasement, but that immediate effects inside the Empire were limited.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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