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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3832968, member: 19463&quot;]The difference is that in the early period mints away from Rome tended to produce coins of their own style for local use while the later period saw many mints all making the same coins with mint mark abbreviations separating them.&nbsp; This strikes me as good in eliminating the need for moneychangers and allowing a standard system to circulate across the empire.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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