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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4584590, member: 110350&quot;]In order for the Empire to be able to issue restoration coinage, which it apparently did (as I see from this thread) at least as late as Marcus Aurelius, the mint presumably had to have ready access to the original coins from as long as a couple of hundred years previously.&nbsp; Do we know if there was some kind of organized archive or library in Rome that preserved examples of all the previous coin issues, back at least as far as the late Republic? I would doubt that old dies were kept that long, given my understanding that they were usually destroyed after the minting of a particular type was done. (Which is the explanation I&#039;ve seen as to why so few Roman coin dies have been discovered.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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