I found interesting, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39606093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39606093 about ancient coinage > "There was a chro

I found interesting, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39606093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39606093 about ancient coinage > "There was a chronic shortage of small change in ancient economies, so even poor quality fakes were accepted in markets for lack of anything better. Authorities tended to ignore such forgeries" We're seeing the same thing again in this article.