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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3097322, member: 76194&quot;]The fact that coins were still circulating more than 200 years after they were minted reminds me of another hoard found in the UK recently. It was from the reign of Marcus Aurelius but had coins dating back to around 32 BCE.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://dailym.ai/1MTgJuP" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dailym.ai/1MTgJuP" rel="nofollow">http://dailym.ai/1MTgJuP</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is only possible in an economy where money is not being handled a lot daily in comparison to our modern post-industrial society. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;A narrower pool of industries mostly based around a few basic needs (food, place to live, clothes, and basic pre-industrial luxury goods), and a very tiny middle class and upper class, means money lasts a lot longer in circulation before being worn badly than it would in any modern nation today...even modern nations with smaller populations than that of the Roman Empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>That and I suppose the treasury back then probably cared little about removing badly worn coins from circulation, except for the rare occasion an emperor decided to recycle old coinage and restrike new coinage (but that doesn&#039;t seem to have happened too frequently.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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