
133 - A Brief History of Inflation In The Roman Empire
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All the Coins Tell a Story
This coin tells a story. Ponchas pilot had terrible relations politically with a whole bunch of people back in so he's making money, he's making buildings. He's doing all kinds of economic gestures to be like, look, tiberius. See, i'm really good at my job. All the coins tell a story. And one of the stories that i've discovered that i think is so interesting about this ancient coinage is the story of the roman government gradually screw its own people out of money to enrich itself,. hoping that they would be none the wiser. Hey, oldsee, tail caesari'm afore you. I'm game. You can trust me.
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