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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4519785, member: 93416&quot;]Yes - perhaps you are thinking of Perry Anderson? - I quote from p. 93 of his &quot;Passages from Antiquity to Fuedalism&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>“The new coinage inaugurated by Constantine combined an elite gold standard for the use of the State and the rich, with constantly depreciated copper units for the needs of the poor, without any intervening scale of denominations between the two, so that virtually two separate monetary systems were created—a faithful tally of the social polarization of the later Empire.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Anderson exaggerates a bit but still - its broadly correct I think</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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