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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jorglueke, post: 3510038, member: 103317&quot;]I feel that there was some small regular debasement through the reign of Commodus. Then a larger one by Septimius. After Valerian was captured and the Empire spplit in three all bets are off. That was a very different situation of critical emergency and clearly silver was hard to come for by Gallienus and his successors. Decius being killed in a battle against Goths probably didn&#039;t help either, nor Philip&#039;s indemnity to the Sasanians.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if Diocletian moved East not just to be rid of the Roman Senate but also because the best mines were now in Anatolia. Given the fact that the argentus didn&#039;t take perhaps there were more effective gold mines than silver ones in the 4th century. But that&#039;s another topic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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