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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3722332, member: 57463&quot;][quote =&quot;medoraman, past 4] &quot;Even in ancient days, you could not hold on to a coin forever as a store of value, as civilizations changed. If your ruler wanted to debase, he debased. If you took a foreign coin to another country you never got full value in exchange.&quot;[\quote]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the first place, your reply contradicts your thesis and supports mine. Your original claim was that &quot;you could not hold on to a coin forever as a store of value.&quot; Yet, indeed, as I said and as you said, the coins of Antony circulated for 200 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>(1) They were silver, even if only 2/3. But it made a convenience, apparently.</p><p>and</p><p>(2) I believe that he was popular as a symbol of the Republic and as an ally of Julius Caesar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Otherwise, over the course of time, they would have been sold to money changers for whatever they could bring. But in decades after his death, generations continued to use his coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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