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物价上涨,货币贬值已不是新问题,早在约2000年前,罗马帝国的统治者们就不得不寻找应付通货膨胀的方法。罗马硬币是用银子制成的,因此银子的来源日趋紧张,通货膨胀也造成了货币问题。制作钱币的银子的价值常常高于硬币本身的价值,当局必须找到制造钱币的新方法,使硬币看上去象银的,里边则是价值低廉的物质。伦敦的玛丽王后学院的大卫·厄赫博士一直在分析研究罗马钱币,他发现是罗马人发明了数百年来制作假货币的人所始终采用的方法。他用一种特
Rising prices and currency devaluation are no longer new issues. As early as about 2,000 years ago, rulers of the Roman Empire had to find ways to deal with inflation. Roman coins are made of silver, so the sources of silver are increasingly tense, and inflation also poses monetary problems. The value of money making silver is often higher than the value of the coin itself, and the authorities must find new ways of making it, making it look silver, with cheap material. Dr David Eher, of Queen Mary’s College in London, has been analyzing Roman coins and found that the Romans invented the same method that has been used for centuries to make fake currencies. He used a kind of special