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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 3224519, member: 26302&quot;]Sogdian Traders, maybe one of the most authoritative books on the period, describes how all Chinese taxes were payable Persian silver.&nbsp; They used to be payable also in Roman silver until debasement. All such imperial revenue was melted down into sycee for the imperial treasury.</p><p><br /></p><p>This loss of silver to the silk road was the main reason late Rome and Byzantium really didn&#039;t have silver coinage. Most of it left to pay for eastern imports.</p><p><br /></p><p>Put it another way. Persia did not have silver mines per se, yet coined good silver coins for centuries. Where do you think most of this came from?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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