Not worthless. The coinage had intrinsic value, being made of metals with a commodity value. So it’s not like holding a paper banknote when a government collapses. People would still have used them to hoard savings, for trade and melted down as a source of precious metals.
That was really the only value they ever had. Boosted a bit by confidence in the purity (but also reduced when Rome debased its coinage).
Just tried this on a recent Trixie amd64 install.
locate
isn’t installed by default, but there is alocate/stable 4.10.0-3
package and it installs just fine for me.sudo apt update sudo apt install locate