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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2443326, member: 74282&quot;]Great example of the type! Even with the wear, the important pieces of the design are mostly there. According to Crawford these were struck during the bronze-only coinage period circa 168-158 B.C. on a weight standard of about 31.5 grams but the Romans were not too worried about the individual weights of the flans and as far as I know there were no Al Marco adjustments or anything like that. Uncial, sextantal, semilibral, etc are a great way to discuss and group the declining weight standards but they&#039;re not a hard and fast rule and actually as Andrew McCabe has shown in his recent work on Republican bronzes, style is a better indicator than weight for attributing the various anonymous types.</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting aside on why the weights vary so much: as flans tended to be cast by placing two semis-sized molds together. Because of this, sometimes a very small difference(I.e deeper or shallower) in the semis-sized molds could lead to a large difference in the weight of an as flan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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