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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7832109, member: 19463&quot;]I never saw reason to doubt this 10.7 brass Vespasian FIDES PVBLICA from Lugdunum was intended to be a dupondius because of the metal but if it were patinated, the obvious assumption would have been as.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1346017[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>More problematic is this 11.2g AE of Trajan Decius which is too light to be a sestertius but radiate busts on dupondii were standard by that time and it is too large to be an as.&nbsp; It seems to have employed large, sestertius dies but the flan seems closer to dupondius.&nbsp; By this time, the color of the metal that once separated the denominations seems to have become just &#039;bronze&#039; but the patina makes that hard to demonstrate.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1346018[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>However this 7.5g radiate is obviously a dupondius and would only expect a 15g sestertius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1346021[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;not far from this 14.3g sestertius of the same type.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1346022[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Then we have this 18.1g coin suggesting there was a standards change during Decius&#039; reign or simply that the mint put little effort into standardizing the weights of its AE coins.&nbsp; All this shows that we have to consider the time and place of a coin before questioning what is right or expected.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1346023[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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