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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3595256, member: 93416&quot;]My understanding of the situation owes a lot to discussion with Ross Glanfield. As things stand I am inclined to accept his view - in the general case RR denarii were tariffed at 6 to the uncia for value, but struck at 7 to the uncia in fact. So a fiat component of value, on the average, of about 14%.</p><p><br /></p><p>Further, I suspect what was going on was disguised by al marco minting, with very loose control at the level of the individual flan. Which would sort of confuse people at the time (and now!).</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing I am specifically working on is a parallel and perhaps linked Roman misunderstanding of measurement of small gradations of weight – which (at least at a popular level) – also seems oddly deficient.</p><p><br /></p><p>Related to that - does anyone know of an English translation of the Distributio of Maecianus? I can figure out the gist of what he is saying, but there will be important nuances I am missing. Isidore and Epiphanius both exist in English translation, for Favinus there is at least a French translation, but I only found the original Latin for Maecianus</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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