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Whenever I see photos of pre-industrial coins, like Roman Denarii, they always seem unevenly struck, with a significant amount of metal on one side or the other. Did mints, governments, and businesses have to account for this excess in their budgets?

by /u/SaintShrink in /r/AskHistorians

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