Human nature never changes, so history repeats itself. During the Roman Republic, the name of the issuer appeared on coins, the same way the signature of the Chancellor of the Treasury appears on banknotes today. That is Stephen T. Manchin. To this day, our coins are designated by which Mint in Philadelphia, Denver, or San Francisco produced them.
The collapse of the monetary system after the capture of Emperor Valerian I by the Persians in 260 AD caused a collapse in public confidence, and people suddenly saw Rome as vulnerable. Rome’s “hyperinflation” in the 1940s was fueled by corruption within the Roman Empire’s Deep State. This begs the question: We’ll see the same thing happen in her final 8.6 years to 2032, starting by May 2024. This was the greed of the Deep State people.
Following the assassination of Emperor Gallienus, Claudius II came to power and the corruption reached its lowest point during his reign. The Goths invaded Rome and brought the plague from the east. Emperor Claudius II died of the plague. Claudius’ brother, Quintilus, attempted to succeed him, but Aurelian and his army marched against him. His army abandoned him and he committed suicide.
Aurelian thus became emperor in 270 AD and returned to Rome in 271 AD. advertisement, where the dreaded city had to be quelled. He quickly put an end to the riots and restored order to the capital. The Roman mint administrators rebelled against Aurelian’s monetary reforms. He ordered all depreciated currencies to be bought back and replaced with new ones containing more silver.who led the rebellion FelicissimusThe people who ran the Mint appear to have embezzled the intended silver and issued devalued coins, at least in part on their own behalf.
Clearly, reforming the monetary system to call for increased silver content would have been detrimental to those running the Mint for personal gain. . Aurelian was forced to trap and execute them and some of their allies, the Senate ranks, in a terrible battle in the Caelian Hills. Aurelian then introduced the mint mark to identify whether mints were cheating on their silver content.
When Diocletian (284-305AD) came to power, he reorganized the coinage similar to the political structure of the Roman Empire. As for politics, he divided the empire into his two and created two emperors, whose successors were given the rank of Caesar. This became the tetra key.
The monetary reform introduced new silver-plated bronze coins known as follis. Caracalla (198-217 AD). Diocletian required each mint to engrave on its coins an identifiable mint mark and a letter or mark designating the individual workshop (officina) within the mint. This makes the collusion to devalue coins identifiable to specific groups within each mint.
The mark of each mint since Diocletian consists of a group of letters identifying the mint (usually in the Excelg) and usually (but not always) letters and/or marks (sometimes in the Excelg, field). These identified individual workshops within the Mint. In the West, workshops were numbered with Latin numerals I, II, III, or Latin ordinal initials such as P(rimus), S(ecundus), T(ertius). The Latin problem surfaced when trying to distinguish between S(ecunda) and S(exta), or Q(uarta) and Q(uinta). They must develop a mixed system of Greek and Latin in the West to give valid meanings to P (Lima), B, T (Eltia), Q (Huarta), E, and S (Exta). I did. Western mints have used the Greek system at various times.
Here you can see a silver Argentius (2.87 grams) with an ‘R’ Roman mint mark. Lugdunum used ‘PL’ for the mint mark, as shown in the Foris of Maximianus, Diocletian co-emperor.