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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 3212218, member: 39084&quot;]While looking through online resources about Nero when I posted my <i>12 Caesars: Nero</i> thread, I found this information about his coinage:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>The financial crises he faced forced him to lower the precious metal content in aurei and denarii, the weight of the aureus dropping by about 2% and the weight of the denarius dropping by about 7%. He reintroduces AES coinage, struck at both Rome and Lugdunum, which hadn’t been issued in almost two decades. Provincial tetradrachms in Egypt and Syria were recalled, melted, and replaced with new coins that dropped the silver content from about 23% to 15%. Some historians believe that this latter reduction in silver freed enough of the metal to fund the rebuilding of Rome.</i> (Cited from: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/12-caesars-nero.302519/#post-2845875" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/12-caesars-nero.302519/#post-2845875">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/12-caesars-nero.302519/#post-2845875</a>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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