And the side effect was the free market valued the coins at it's metal content, so the soldiers then demanded a larger amount of 40% coins instead of a smaller amount of 90% coins to afford their daily expenses.  Hence, you are just bringing up the fact that the metals are immune to government manipulation since their actions actually accomplished nothing by tampering with them.  Rome didn't collapse because of sound money, they collapsed from completely unrelated reasons and then tried to tamper with sound money and discovered it was pointless.

You guys are not one-upping me on Rome no matter how much Martin Shillstrong propaganda you pull out.