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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 7282072, member: 80783&quot;]Awesome Sestertii !</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>One might add that the whole imperial treasury that Decius carried with his army fell into the hands of the goths in the battle of Abrittus, resulting not only in a shortage of precious metals that further increased the need to decrease the weight of the Aureus and the purity of the Antoninianus, but also acted as a catalyst for the creation of imitative Aurei (most specimens were hacked into pieced and burried, but some survived as pendants worn by barbaric chieftains and became status symbols that generated the need for reproduction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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