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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Monolith, post: 8150618, member: 133894&quot;]Based on hoard finds, it&#039;s estimated that Antony&#039;s legionary denarii accounted for as much as 30% of the total circulating denarii as late as the 2nd century... 200 years after they were produced. But they go even later: The Shapwick hoard of the 3rd century was still 3% legionary denarii. So, these coins were so incredibly numerous that they had become a part of Roman monetary life and culture for centuries. Generations of Romans will have had these coins in their purses.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the most compelling reason for why these denarii were restored given their somewhat unflattering imagery is that they were simply so numerous that they&#039;d become indistinguishable from money itself. Sort of like an American picking up a dollar bill and seeing George Washington on it -- even if you don&#039;t know a single thing about the Revolutionary War or the first president, you know that this is what a dollar is &quot;supposed&quot; to look like. So, restoring them means you change out all the increasingly worn money in peoples hands with money that they&#039;re familiar with, but that isn&#039;t worn.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s an article here that you might be interested in, it goes into this in more detail: <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/26637375" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/26637375" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/26637375</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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