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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3541255, member: 93416"]Afraid I cannot agree. According to the Wiki page you initially posted, the Romans used a Euboean mina. Presumably in order to ease their trade with the Hellenised East? The specific form of Euboean /Attic they adopted seems to be very similar to that chosen, earlier, for gold in Egypt, so would ease trade with them too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile the c. 3.9g Republican denarius is an eighth ounce to the oldest mina we know of (c. 500g), a version of which seems to have spread into the Mediterranean 1000 years before the birth of Rome. As such its issue would certainly ease trade with many Greek cities – which still used that c. 500g mina. The coin evidence we have hints that that system was in use in Naples in the Greek period. As such it would be less foreign to Rome than the Euboean system - that favoured in most modern coin books.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, we have no clear texts to tell us even what the Romans did – let alone why. The suggestions I make merely follow the evidence, as far as it goes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3541255, member: 93416"]Afraid I cannot agree. According to the Wiki page you initially posted, the Romans used a Euboean mina. Presumably in order to ease their trade with the Hellenised East? The specific form of Euboean /Attic they adopted seems to be very similar to that chosen, earlier, for gold in Egypt, so would ease trade with them too. Meanwhile the c. 3.9g Republican denarius is an eighth ounce to the oldest mina we know of (c. 500g), a version of which seems to have spread into the Mediterranean 1000 years before the birth of Rome. As such its issue would certainly ease trade with many Greek cities – which still used that c. 500g mina. The coin evidence we have hints that that system was in use in Naples in the Greek period. As such it would be less foreign to Rome than the Euboean system - that favoured in most modern coin books. Of course, we have no clear texts to tell us even what the Romans did – let alone why. The suggestions I make merely follow the evidence, as far as it goes. Rob T[/QUOTE]
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