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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 7953377, member: 84744&quot;]I&#039;ve been fascinated by these too!&nbsp; They&#039;re awfully hard to come by, though (except for Aurelian/Severina, as you note).&nbsp; Here are the late denarii I&#039;ve managed to pick up...</p><p><br /></p><p>Gallienus:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378276[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Severina:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378277[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Carinus:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378278[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This tiny (and rare) post-reform coin of Diocletian was likely valued at 1 denarius communis.&nbsp; It&#039;s 1.42g and 17mm:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378279[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>(I also have a pre-reform small laureate coin of Diocletian, though the denomination normally called &quot;quinarius&quot;:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378285[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Going even later, Philip Grierson (Medieval European Coinage vol. 1, pp. 105-6) argues cogently that the Merovingian deniers c. 700 were called &quot;denarius&quot;, and valued at 12 to the &quot;solidus.&quot;&nbsp; Here&#039;s mine (c. 700-725):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378280[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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