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The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire(economist.com)
14 points by andsoitis 2 days ago | 5 comments
skeletoncrew2 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Haha this article doesn’t seem to know much about money: in paragraph 1 it notes that Roman gold coins in India could be melted and reformed into other gold valuables, then in paragraph 2 it asserts that this suggests Rome ran a trade deficit.

It later claims that currency may have caused a plague…hello maybe it was trading that caused the bacteria to move

bitmaks 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

anyone have a archive link?

LidlMiddleAisle a day ago | parent | next [-]

https://archive.ph/InER2

pseudohadamard 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Thanks for that! It'd be interesting to see a comparison to Spain, the other big, fabulously wealthy empire in history that burned itself out in a similar manner.

2 days ago | parent | prev [-]
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