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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 4517715, member: 15481&quot;]A constant challenge for the empire, was to provide sufficient amounts of prescious metals to make money of, in order to make the economy work. </p><p>Today I read about Publius Cornelius Rufinus, who was punished for owning more than 10 pounds of silver plate. This was 300 BC, and I suppose this law was repealed, but I take it this says something about the attitude towards hoarding metals. </p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Cornelius_Rufinus_(consul_290_BC)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Cornelius_Rufinus_(consul_290_BC)" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Cornelius_Rufinus_(consul_290_BC)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>During the later empire, they would need every gold coin they could find. And there were new weight standards, so the old aureii wouldn’t be fit for the monetary system. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, remember that the most effective way to announce who was the emperor, was to put that persons portrait on the coins. That would mean melting down old coins in order to make new ones. </p><p>I find it more puzzling that there is such a lot of older Roman coins left.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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