While researching on this coin of the fallen horseman, I found out that its denomination is " Centenionalis". Not very strange to me, I suppose. But while it had been officially listed with a weight of 4.63 g., mine is 6.53 g. almost 2 g. of difference in weight. The coin is listed under RIC VIII- ANT- 135. Could you please have any comment on this ?
They started out large, but quickly shrunk. Inflation, cost of bronze, etc. But yes, it's called a centenionalis.
Lol. You know, ancient coins used to be considerably bigger when they were made because homo sapiens was considerably smaller. All the advances of 20th-century medicine have added up to making most of us a head taller than the average Roman soldier.
i think there is quite a bit of variation in the size of these coins 7C, so i don't think you weight is weird. here is DS's page on the type.. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fh.html
No, the weight isn't weird. It's an AE2 size. They had a short run until the coins shrank to AE3. But I believe they are both called a centenionalis, regardless of the difference in weight.
