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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 2786774, member: 85693&quot;]Yeah, I think in movies set in ancient times, they bump up the size of the coins because otherwise it looks as if everybody is getting excited about (or getting in fights over) a handful of dimes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did like it in <i>Rome</i> when Lucius Vorenus was paying the surgeon for fixing Pullo&#039;s skull and the doc, without missing a beat, hands back one of the coins and says (as I recall) &quot;This one&#039;s brass.&quot;&nbsp; A near-reference to a fourree, perhaps?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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