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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jorglueke, post: 3550586, member: 103317&quot;]I suppose what matters most was how the debasement was managed. In the United States silver was removed from coinage and as a backing for paper money over the ten year span of 1965-1974. Once complete the initial management was poor, there was too much money and inflation and interest rates become unstable to a harmful degree. However after the initial mishap the money supply has been managed at a rate of 3% debasement for annum and defenders of centrally managed money will defend this as perferable over the booms and crashed seen especially before 1929.</p><p>Given what we know about Septimius his goal was most likely to be getting more money, and more purchasing power into the hands of his soldiers. And it appears he was successful in this.&nbsp; Now maybe it was something done on borrowed time in that prices adjusted more slowly in the 3rd century Empire so Septimius could realize the short term gains with more limited consequences.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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