While true, it's worth pointing out the Romans devalued their silver coins. One day they woke up and said "The denarian will now contain X grams of silver, rat

While true, it's worth pointing out the Romans devalued their silver coins. One day they woke up and said "The denarian will now contain X grams of silver, rather than X+N grams. Oh and btw, all those contracts we wrote that said we'd pay you 100 coins, yeah, you're getting paid in the new denomination".