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General Question About Marc Antony Galley Coins

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I have asked friends about this before and gotten various answers. But as I continue going through coins I still have never felt good about any answer. Specifically, there are so many galley denarius coins of Marc Antony that survived to this day and 90% are always very worn. I am starting to think the process that made these might have actually struck them more lightly as they were often struck by a "traveling mint" that came along with him. My newest theory from no other place, and I know it sounds kind of crazy.
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The Antony legionary denarii had a lower silver content than other denarii of the late Republican period. When Trajan debased the silver coinage, most Republican and Julio-Claudian denarii were withdrawn. Because the Antony denarii were of about the same silver content as Trajan's debased denarii, they continued to circulate and are often found much worn.
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Wow perfect answer! They really are very very very worn and used money after all. Thanks!
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Wow perfect answer! They really are very very very worn and used money after all. Thanks!
For an idea of just how worn and used they were: a particularly well-used example was found in the Beau Street hoard, which was probably assembled in the mid-to-late 3rd century AD, i.e. about 300 years later.

Imagine if, among all the assorted clad quarters, you could still sometimes find an extremely worn coin of George II, Louis XIII, or Philip V. It sounds completely impossible, right? But this is exactly how old that one Mark Antony denarius was when it ended up in the Beau Street hoard.

EDIT: to clarify somewhat, technically the Beau Street hoard actually cheated a bit by including a bag full of metaphorical silver quarters next to the clad ones (or, dropping the metaphor, a bag of denarii next to several bags of debased radiates), which naturally leads to some suspicion that this particular part - which is the one with the Mark Antony denarius - might have been assembled a bit earlier.
But even that would still only knock perhaps 2-3 decades - if that - off the three centuries between that hoard and Mark Antony.
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Talking about long circulation life
I remember reading once (long ago) that when British "agents" got involved in Afghanistan
in the early 19th century one of the more surprising discoveries were drachms of Alexander !
They were still being accepted and exchanged as currency in the markets and bazaars even after 2,000 plus years
Good silver is good silver
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