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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3624449, member: 99456&quot;]The economic rationale referenced in <a href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/first-read-coinage-roman-economy/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/first-read-coinage-roman-economy/" rel="nofollow">Kenneth Harl</a>&#039;s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coinage-Economy-Ancient-Society-History/dp/0801852919" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Coinage-Economy-Ancient-Society-History/dp/0801852919" rel="nofollow">Coinage in the Roman Economy</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]971888[/ATTACH] </p><p>and</p><p>[ATTACH=full]971887[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>and the reference from Pliny with some additional context:</p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">&quot;At a later period again, when Hannibal was pressing hard upon Rome, in the dictatorship of Q. Fabius Maximus, asses of one ounce weight were struck, and it was ordained that the value of the denarius should be sixteen asses, that of the quinarius eight asses, and that of the sestertius four asses; by which last reduction of the weight of the as the republic made a clear gain of one half. <span style="color: green"><u>Still, however, so far as the pay of the soldiers is concerned, one denarius has always been given for every ten asses.</u></span> The impressions upon the coins of silver were two-horse and four-horse chariots, and hence it is that they received the names of &quot;bigati&quot; and &quot;quadrigati.&quot;&quot;</font></p><p>-<font size="3"><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D33%3Achapter%3D13" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D33%3Achapter%3D13" rel="nofollow"> Pliny Natural History 33.13</a></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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