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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Suarez, post: 4124738, member: 99239&quot;]I don&#039;t think that&#039;s how it works Doug. A modern mint may keep thousands of tons in mint warehouses until some future date when it&#039;s needed but this isn&#039;t a luxury ancient civs had. Copper and precious metals that were mined or recovered as loot would have gone to the melting point straightaway and coined <i>because it was more valuable that way</i>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Minting coins was the most reliably profitable operation the Roman authorities ever had. The comparative rarity of the bronzes during this period was almost certainly due to scarcity of ore. All of these metals would always have been available as commodities that were traded publicly but the only time the treasury could have coined it at markup is if they controlled the source.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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