Periodic Reporting for period 3 - RACOM (Rome and the Coinages of the Mediterranean: 200 BCE to 64 CE)

Summary
Ancient silver coinage formed the backbone of state finance in antiquity. The fineness and quality of a coinage is often taken by historians to be a comment on the fiscal health of the issuing state, yet very little is really known about its fineness and chemical composition...
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