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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 3573465, member: 82549&quot;]As you said, the denarius had disappeared. For a while the antoninianus, which was valued at 2 denari, was the main circulating coin. Eventually, they devolved into small, mostly bronze coins (<a href="http://feltemp.com/Emperors/MaximianHerculius.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://feltemp.com/Emperors/MaximianHerculius.html" rel="nofollow">http://feltemp.com/Emperors/MaximianHerculius.html</a>). With Diocletian&#039;s monetary reform, these debased antoniniani, or double denari, were replaced with the large, tetrachic nummi (a.k.a., folli) that, originally, were more than twice the size and weight of the antoniniani (<a href="http://feltemp.com/Emperors/Galerius.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://feltemp.com/Emperors/Galerius.html" rel="nofollow">http://feltemp.com/Emperors/Galerius.html</a>). My guess is that these new coins were said to be worth the equivalent of 6 antoniniani. (Is that right, Victor?) But these large nummi did not stay large for very long. Within 25 years or so they had shrunk down to the size of the typical campgate (<a href="http://feltemp.com/60_Her_16.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://feltemp.com/60_Her_16.html" rel="nofollow">http://feltemp.com/60_Her_16.html</a>), even though they supposedly retained their original comparative worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s see if I&#039;m right. Anyone want to trade a campgate (see link above) for 24 Vespasian denari?</p><p><br /></p><p>23?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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