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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4295906, member: 87200"]Interesting question for which I have no answer. I guess we might assume that the tetradrachms struck in the Eastern cities of the Empire did not circulate in the West. (Well, maybe) We do know that Egypt was a closed economy and that the denarius, when one exchanged money was probably worth the same as a billon tetradrachm, whereas the drachm might have been tariffed at one sestertius. </p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, we know of money changers in the temple who presumably had to assess values of a variety of coinages including Tyrian shekels and the so-called tribute penny or denarius, and we know that denarii circulated in the East.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4295906, member: 87200"]Interesting question for which I have no answer. I guess we might assume that the tetradrachms struck in the Eastern cities of the Empire did not circulate in the West. (Well, maybe) We do know that Egypt was a closed economy and that the denarius, when one exchanged money was probably worth the same as a billon tetradrachm, whereas the drachm might have been tariffed at one sestertius. On the other hand, we know of money changers in the temple who presumably had to assess values of a variety of coinages including Tyrian shekels and the so-called tribute penny or denarius, and we know that denarii circulated in the East.[/QUOTE]
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