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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus Maximus, post: 3556549, member: 73473&quot;]That’s most likely due to the Cyprian plague that occurred early into Decius’s reign which coincides with the silver purity decrease early on in Decius’s reign</p><p>The plague was bad, like really bad: Possibly killing a quarter of the legions and a large amount of the population( the tax base). With a reduced tax base the government probably opened the flood gates for increasingly debased antoninianii.</p><p>See</p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/3784962/A_theory_on_how_the_denarius_disappeared_and_the_debasement_of_the_antoninianus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/3784962/A_theory_on_how_the_denarius_disappeared_and_the_debasement_of_the_antoninianus" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/3784962/A_theory_on_how_the_denarius_disappeared_and_the_debasement_of_the_antoninianus</a></p><p>And</p><p>[ATTACH=full]945408[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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