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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3199481, member: 85693&quot;]This is an interesting topic.&nbsp; To expand on Ken&#039;s mention of the Marc Antony legionary denarius, here is an excerpt from a <i>Coin World</i> article:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;All of the legionary denarii appear to have been struck circa 32 to 31 B.C. while Antony was in Greece preparing for his war against Octavian. The silver content of Antony’s legionary denarii is low for the era, seemingly because Antony had to stretch his limited resources.</p><p><br /></p><p>The poor silver quality of these coins would have been unpopular at the time, and their low silver content made them so undesirable in commerce that they remained in circulation for a very long time—sometimes more than 250 years. By the early third century A.D., silver coinage had declined enough in weight and purity that a slick legionary denarius was of similar intrinsic value to a current denarius.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This link does not work anymore, for some reason, but I put it here for attribution reasons, author was David Vagi.&nbsp; This information is available in a multitude of places elsewhere:</p><p><a href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2012/01/marc-antony-legionary-denarii-ic.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2012/01/marc-antony-legionary-denarii-ic.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2012/01/marc-antony-legionary-denarii-ic.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>These are readily available to collectors, usually in pretty wretched condition.&nbsp; Coin Talk member Bing is assembling a complete set.&nbsp; I have a few ugly ones that had obviously been used hard, perhaps for centuries:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]827689[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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