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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3274232, member: 99456&quot;]I enjoyed your posts on your top ten list and the amazing Roscia 3 with scale control mark which, being in a perpetual learning mode, prompted me to explore Roman scales and surveying equipment (e.g, <a href="https://www.vgwacademy.com/groma/groma.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vgwacademy.com/groma/groma.html" rel="nofollow"><i>groma</i></a>, <i><a href="https://www.mountainproductions.com/blog/2017/05/17/protractors-modern-day-distos-appreciation-measuring-tools-throughout-history/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.mountainproductions.com/blog/2017/05/17/protractors-modern-day-distos-appreciation-measuring-tools-throughout-history/" rel="nofollow">dioptra</a></i>) that might look scale-like.</p><p><br /></p><p>[FLOAT_RIGHT]<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-roman-scale-weight-translation-help-needed.329210/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-roman-scale-weight-translation-help-needed.329210/">[ATTACH=full]864228[/ATTACH]</a>[/FLOAT_RIGHT]Your OP on this thread also appealed to my general interest in provenance, and the wish that the markings with some detective work might reveal the archeologist, an organization, the site, or the time period in which it was unearthed.</p><p><br /></p><p>On images on coins, I wonder if the steelyard was too utilitarian and imprecise to associate with coins where weight standards would have to meet or at least claim a high level of precision.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]864252[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Claudius I AE Quadrans</b>. Rome Mint 42 AD. 3.3g 16mm</p><p><b>Obv:</b> TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG, right hand holding scales, PNR below</p><p><b>Rev:</b> PON M TR P IMP COS DES IT around S C</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. PNR?&nbsp; thought to be related to a monetary reform &quot;pondus nummorum restitutum&quot; = &quot;weight of coins restored&quot; - which is interesting to see with the scale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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