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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 4865669, member: 93416"]I too would be cautious about such matters. In England we know Henry VIII confiscated a lot of treasure from monasteries yet this went hand in hand with a great debasement of the coinage. Seems his ability to spend it far outran what he could confiscate at least in that case.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope I am right in assuming an uptick in gold production under Constantine - which perhaps was in part underwritten by "plundering" the coinage itself - in the sense that he melted the "pagan" gold of rivals and struck much lighter solidi of his own?</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 4865669, member: 93416"]I too would be cautious about such matters. In England we know Henry VIII confiscated a lot of treasure from monasteries yet this went hand in hand with a great debasement of the coinage. Seems his ability to spend it far outran what he could confiscate at least in that case. I hope I am right in assuming an uptick in gold production under Constantine - which perhaps was in part underwritten by "plundering" the coinage itself - in the sense that he melted the "pagan" gold of rivals and struck much lighter solidi of his own? Rob[/QUOTE]
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