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How did about a hundred coins from the western half of the Roman Empire come to be in the same purse with about a hundred coins from the eastern half? This coin hoard offers a glimpse into the life of the Roman Empire during its second-most critical civil war—that between Constantine and Licinius—which resulted in the Christianization of Rome.
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The article adds a wealth of new data for numismatists studying the bronze coinage of the Roman Empire—and proves a century-old hypothesis about inflation in the early 300s AD.
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This page is a summary of: The Riddle of the Nablus Collection, May 2017, University of California Press,
DOI: 10.1525/sla.2017.1.2.173.
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