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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3742964, member: 87200&quot;]On re-watching the video I get the impression that striking the coins is an amazing amount of work, considering the small batches of flans involved, the necessity of smelting the metal (somewhere, I guess at the mint), then re-heating the flans before striking. I wonder how they cranked out so many late third century antoniniani trying to combat inflation by presumably, drastically increasing the output. One can imagine that the working conditions would not be optimal and that many of the dirty, dangerous jobs would be filled by slaves. These guys needed a union.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also am curious about how the coins were actually released into the economy. Mass distributions, largesse, pay of soldiers and bureaucrats, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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