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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 8355014, member: 26302"]Depends on what you mean by "circulation". Gold and silver coins would always hold value, and trade as such by those who recognized them. However, I do not think any coin could survive much past a couple of hundred years of actual circulation due to wear. So yeah, many coins were found and subsequently were circulating 1000 years after striking, but never continuously. I have also heard of Peroz coins circulating in Kabul in the 1960s as another silver coin. No doubt in my mind they were buried for 1500 years or more before being recirculated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 8355014, member: 26302"]Depends on what you mean by "circulation". Gold and silver coins would always hold value, and trade as such by those who recognized them. However, I do not think any coin could survive much past a couple of hundred years of actual circulation due to wear. So yeah, many coins were found and subsequently were circulating 1000 years after striking, but never continuously. I have also heard of Peroz coins circulating in Kabul in the 1960s as another silver coin. No doubt in my mind they were buried for 1500 years or more before being recirculated.[/QUOTE]
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