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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2487823, member: 19463&quot;]The silvered coins were supposed to contain their face value in silver but at debasement of 20:1 the was was needed to remind people that the silver was in there.&nbsp; They could have chosen to issue tiny silver coins or much larger copper ones but they took the middle road.&nbsp; The amount of silver on the surface was not much compared to the 4.77% hidden inside.&nbsp; On occasion we have evidence of the mint cheating and delivering less than expected making the coins as worthless intrinsically as paper money.&nbsp; We even have records of Aurelian cracking down on his mint workers for profiting inappropriately.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicissimus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicissimus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicissimus</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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