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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 209290, member: 6370&quot;]As for Roman Coins and the methods they used to mine in pretty much every part of the empire from Asia to Britain?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Some estimate that the slave population in the 1st century consisted of approximately one-third of the total. A high proportion of the populations in Italy, present-day Tunisia, southern Spain and western Anatolia consisted of slaves. The overall proportion of slaves may have not have reached 20% for the whole Empire of 12-15 million people. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;The majority of mine workers were slaves. The work conditions were terrible, and up to 12% of miners died every year.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>but they sure did make nice coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If one wanted to get real picky...coins minted in the US during slavery and then during segregation are coins minted in a country...well...that used slaves and / or practiced apartheid...the gold and silver for any Spanish coins have the blood of natives...The Dutch were rather brutal during colonial times, etc...the list would go on forever and severely limit your collection. A good way to do it in my opinion is to go ahead and collect them and then let the history be known for all to read...a lesson in the bad old days. The history of money and precious metals it simply brutal...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have been collecting Notgeld now for a bit and I have to say many of those bills are extremely shocking in their subject matter so when I post them on my site I will fully explain what was going on at the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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