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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 4518308, member: 56653&quot;]The gold coinage is really plentiful for the 5th and 6th century, mostly because there were multiple reasons for hoards being hidden and lost during the migration period and continuous periods of conflict. The <i>siliquae </i>are not continuously rare -- The siliquae of the 350s, 360-370s are usually what you expect to find when browsing dealer inventories. This corresponds with Constantius II&#039;s campaign against Magnentius, the Gallic wars and Julian&#039;s offensive against the Persians and the relationship with the Thervingi in the 370s. I think that a large input of precious metal -- gold and silver -- issues for the late empire should be related to imperial needs, mostly military campaigns and payments towards <i>foederati </i>and/or the warring tribes on the <i>limes</i>, while the common economic needs were addressed by an almost unlimited output of base metal coinage. That&#039;s why you don&#039;t see much of Magnentian gold and silver (nor Vetranian) but lots of Constantius II dating from that particular civil war era, coupled with a cornucopia of AEs of all shapes and sizes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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