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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1632979, member: 26302&quot;]Sizes and weight can and cannot matter. It depends. I like Mat&#039;s answer will add my own.</p><p><br /></p><p>IN ancient times they had very tight control of weight on PM coins. So from the mint your coin should have tight weight tolerances. Size will not matter really due to what Mat said. For PM coins, if you coin is overweight significantly first thing I would worry about is a fake. The ancients simply did not waste PM like that. If underweight, it could be from clipping, from soil leeching, cleaning, or a fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>For copper based coins, they were always of token value, so no huge effort was put in weight control. For them, weight is really not indicative of much, as long as your coin is within observed weight variations, which can be large.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, bottom line, weight was what was controlled on PM coins in ancient times. Many, many issues have variations in diameter, since pretty large. I will say though that generally a larger diameter coin is valued higher than a smaller diameter thicker coin of the same issue. THis is generally because more of the design will fit on the wider flan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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