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TIL at its peak in ~150 AD, the Roman Empire’s silver stock is estimated to have been five to ten times larger than the combined silver stocks of medieval Europe and the Abbasid Caliphate in ~800 AD
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But did they ever have a Woodstock?
So, what happened to all of that silver?