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Why did the Roman Empire produce more coins?

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The Roman Empire produced more coins because they needed a surplus of coins to be able to pay all the people that the state itself needed to pay (it was mostly soldiers who were professionals and required a payment in the form of coin). But it also needed to produce more coin because the empire itself was drastically expanding and the needs for trading were ever-increasing in this case.

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To fund the government and the military.

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