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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2253253, member: 51347&quot;]Thank you!&nbsp; I had run across this... had read that that the Romans overstruck on vanquished bronze coinage.&nbsp; I wondered at the time that the Romans used the overstruck coins as &quot;tokens&quot; since they were half the weight, similar to the Roman Litrae that were traded with the Southern Italy Magna Graecia from 280-211 BCE...&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Kinda a punishment:&nbsp; &quot;Here...take this Sextans for HALF the copper/bronze weight for the grain we want from you.&nbsp; Good luck spending this low bronze weight coin ELSEWHERE. If you spend it in Rome, you will have to DOUBLE the amount of Sextans to buy from us, you vanquished swine.&nbsp; THAT will teach YOU for buddy-ing up with that nasty Hannibal Dude...&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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