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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4296003, member: 72790"]I think you maybe need to turn this upside down. The Mauryans only had billions of smallish silver, much like most of RR Rome. So did the Parthians and Sasanids. And Greek states like Miletos seems dominated by small silver. Like Medieval Gurarat and the Shahis. And Anglo-Saxon and Norman England too, and likewise for Continental Europe at that time. Plus the Chinese really only had copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the question is just as much, why did the others bang out big silver and gold? And also, what prompted you to frame the question your way anyhow?</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p>Probably because I have a large number of large silver denomination Greek coins and a large number of Republican and Imperial denarii and if one lays them out one is bound to notice a great number of large Greek silver coins and very few large Roman ones. Nothing of cosmic significance here but an anecdotal observation that prompted my curiosity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4296003, member: 72790"]I think you maybe need to turn this upside down. The Mauryans only had billions of smallish silver, much like most of RR Rome. So did the Parthians and Sasanids. And Greek states like Miletos seems dominated by small silver. Like Medieval Gurarat and the Shahis. And Anglo-Saxon and Norman England too, and likewise for Continental Europe at that time. Plus the Chinese really only had copper. So the question is just as much, why did the others bang out big silver and gold? And also, what prompted you to frame the question your way anyhow? Rob T[/QUOTE] Probably because I have a large number of large silver denomination Greek coins and a large number of Republican and Imperial denarii and if one lays them out one is bound to notice a great number of large Greek silver coins and very few large Roman ones. Nothing of cosmic significance here but an anecdotal observation that prompted my curiosity.[/QUOTE]
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