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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3949512, member: 72790&quot;]A very good book on this subject is &quot;Coinage in the Roman Economy by Kenneth W. Harl, where between pages 130-145 he lists some of the emperors of this period and the fineness of silver in their coinage. Postumus started off well with his coins in 260 coming in at 20% fine silver but then they, too, went down steadily till those of 269 were down to 4.8 %. Gallienus went from 15.4 % fine in 262 to 8.7 % in 266 and finally in 267 to 6%. Claudius II (Gothicus) started off at 3.16 % in 268 and the next year down&nbsp; 1.71. At that point the double denarius must have appeared as pure bronze to the public. No wonder Aurelian&#039;s looked good at 4.5 % compared to that at least until the silver coating quickly wore off.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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