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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1906654, member: 19463&quot;]I have not seen as much written on this about later denarii but I suspect that the Republican practice of making weights of individual coins less important than making a specified number of coins out of a weight of metal.&nbsp; I believe that this period was aiming at 96 coins to the Roman pound which works out to about 3.4g.&nbsp; If the caster of flans was nearing the end of a pound and still needed several coins, there might be some lighter ones.&nbsp; Similarly if he was within five coins of the 96 and still had a lot left, there might be some big ones.&nbsp; I suspect pouring flans to correct size was something of a special skill developed by practice.&nbsp; We know the Republicans adjusted weights with their scoops to remove metal but this stopped before the end of the Republic.&nbsp; I wonder how it was done later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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