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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1654939, member: 19463&quot;]My Philip sestertii range from 21.6g to 11.7g.&nbsp; The light ones are late in the reign and what you might call dumpy.&nbsp; The heavy tend to be rounder and have metal outside the dotted border.&nbsp; The Saeculares coins are late.&nbsp;&nbsp; There still is a huge variation in weights but coins with low weights and cut looking edges tend to be late and well made round ones tend to be early.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have a hippo but my wolf is typically junky and 13.9g which really is not small for a late coin. </p><p>[ATTACH]242236.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>To me the odd part is that Trajan Decius sestertii also vary a lot suggesting to me that he restored the weight or that they just did not care how much metal you got in a sestertius.&nbsp; Looking at the weight ranges of his double sestertii on acsearch, I think they just did not care.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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