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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 4529568, member: 44316&quot;]This has already been answered, but I&#039;ll answer again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Inflation. With a copy of RIC VI you can see that coins from 293 and later get smaller and weigh less every few years. The same nominal denomination has less and less metal, making it worth less and things it buys cost more. Between 294 (beginning the coin reform which produced the big 28 mm follis) and 305 the weight and size reduction was not much. But then it became more noticeable and by 317 AE coins were all c. 19 mm and only one third the weight. Only the earliest coins of Constantine are from the period when coins were 26 mm or more. At that time, his own mints (in the west) were very productive of coins for him, but eastern mints were not. Later, until 324, he had a bigger fraction of the empire and more mints minting for him, and after 324 they were all his mints. By then, however, all the AE coins were AE3s.&nbsp; So, AE3s are the most common coins for him.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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