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Rome adopted coinage later than the Greeks
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Rome was not the first state to mint round coins. Greek cities had issued coins centuries before Rome’s silver issues: the Bank of Italy dates Rome’s first silver series to the first half of the third century BCE. Romans borrowed Greek forms and employed Greek craftsmen.