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When a Roman emperor or European king would mint new coins with his portrait (or whatever) on them, did they take the old ones of previous rulers out of circulation? Or would citizens be faced with a myriad of coins with different faces of different people?

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Is it true that the maya were essentially a stone aged society (having stopped short of discovering bronze) and hadn’t invented the wheel?

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When a Roman emperor or European king would mint new coins with his portrait (or whatever) on them, did they take the old ones of previous rulers out of circulation? Or would citizens be faced with a myriad of coins with different faces of different people?	1540
Is it true that the maya were essentially a stone aged society (having stopped short of discovering bronze) and hadn’t invented the wheel?	1