00:00Roman mint workers secretly chopped silver coins with copper before soldiers received their paychecks.
00:06Emperors desperately melted down precious imperial treasury reserves to print worthless currency for military payrolls.
00:14Merchants instantly spotted the fake metal and refused to accept light currency for grain supplies.
00:21Starving frontier legions abandoned border forts because pay wagons carried useless metal instead of food.
00:28Internal currency fraud shattered border supply lines long before barbarian armies ever crossed the frontier.
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