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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2321732, member: 74282&quot;]RRdenarius is spot on. I will add that, from my understanding, the pre-denarius silver(and gold) issues were largely made to facilitate commerce with the Greek cities. The denarius system was introduced because the Second Punic War put great stress on the Roman monetary system and they realized these two separate systems were untenable so a new integrated bronze, silver and gold system was introduced with values based on the asses of the existing bronze system. On top of that, a new silver coin, the victoriatus, was introduced for commerce with the Greek cities and was not valued in asses nor was it meant to be part of the Roman monetary system and hoard evidence proves that the denarius and the victoriatus did not circulate together.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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