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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 8078674, member: 56653&quot;]The siliqua was also a scarcer denomination with what seems to have been a more specific function and minting timing, mostly military and political. If the clipping was done in the West (and mostly in Britain), in the northern outskirts of the Empire on the Rhine and Danube frontier and beyond much of the silver received by the barbarian auxiliary or paid as tribute to Germanic warlords was holed and likely worn. And since it was primary used as a political and military payment, while the regular economic functions in the cities and rural areas were left to the billon coinages, a lot less siliquae exist today mirroring probably the fact that they were less available in the usual commerce back then when they were minted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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