Probably quite early in his reign, as the portrait looks quite a bit like Severus Alexander.

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    I’ll throw my 2c into the end of this thread - Mike Duncan’s The History of Rome podcast (Probably around 90 hours total) does go into reasonable detail on the various attempts at inflationary control, devaluation and attempted revaluation of the coins, some weird barter attempts that were tried and failed etc.

    Highly digestible on a commute. I’ve listened to it fully through twice.