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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3961377, member: 19463&quot;]I suspect in many cases these &#039;barbarous&#039; coins served as money where there was none of the official issue.&nbsp; In the US there were two periods where the government did not make enough small change for commerce so private mints made Hard Times and Civil War tokens to serve as cents. I see the same thing happening in the far reaches of the empire or just outside it (the limes).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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