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>Sparta - Gold prohibition in a collapsing economy  - Paul Tustain - Galmarley.com
You've answered none of the authors points: your comment is flat rubbish.

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Beginning of the headline :This coinage was famous enough to have a classical joke made about it much later by Plutarch (in about AD 100). Assuming that its representative value ought to be its true value Plutarch believed it would require a horse and cart to transfer an amount appropriate for even the most modest transaction. The joke lasted longer than the money, perhaps because it paints an absurd picture, but only a fool would imagine the Spartans conducting their grocery transactions with armfuls of iron currency, for 300 years... Read More
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