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<p>[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 4966512, member: 82549"]More or less correct, but the antoniniani did not "switch" from silver to bronze. It was a long, gradual debasement of the silver coinage that started with the denarii. By the middle of the 3rd century A.D., the amount of silver in an antoninianus had been reduced to about 5%. (Which is still a lot more silver than is found in our current US "silver" coinage. We old-timers can tell you long, boring stories about the days when we really did have silver coins and silver certificates. [Don't get us started.])[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 4966512, member: 82549"]More or less correct, but the antoniniani did not "switch" from silver to bronze. It was a long, gradual debasement of the silver coinage that started with the denarii. By the middle of the 3rd century A.D., the amount of silver in an antoninianus had been reduced to about 5%. (Which is still a lot more silver than is found in our current US "silver" coinage. We old-timers can tell you long, boring stories about the days when we really did have silver coins and silver certificates. [Don't get us started.])[/QUOTE]
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