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To: SunkenCiv

Gee, an empire that ran on a hard currency, not fiat money. How odd....


11 posted on 02/09/2013 6:55:10 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
Actually, central, by the time Constantine became emperor, Roman coinage was "silver washed" copper where it had been almost all silver 300 years earlier.
16 posted on 02/09/2013 7:10:27 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin (A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
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