The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire(economist.com)

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The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/03/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-currency-empire

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skeletoncrew24 เดือนที่ผ่านมา

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

bitmaks4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา

anyone have a archive link?

LidlMiddleAisle4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา

https://archive.ph/InER2

pseudohadamard4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา

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.

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