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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1933140, member: 19463&quot;]Just my opinions:</p><p>AR ant= a coin that looks like silver without a spongelike textured surface caused by too much alloy added to the mix.&nbsp; These (rarely) come as late as Gallienus and Postumus to my standards.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]333704[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Billon ant= a coin that is gray but has a texture that makes you doubt just how much silver is in it.&nbsp; These seem to start around the time of Trebonianus Gallus at some mints but that is mostly a matter of where you draw the line.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]333705[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Silvered ant (or AE(S) ant)= a coin whose silver was added after the flan was cast and still retains enough of that silver to make us aware it was there.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]333708[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>AE ant= a coin that has lost enough of its silver that you don&#039;t consider it worth mentioning.&nbsp; There might be a little or it might be all gone.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]333709[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>All this is not a cut and dried hard line matter but ways of describing a progression from silver to not in many steps with some issues being better than the ones the week before and some of the same date being different from others of a different mint.&nbsp; Very few Alexandria&nbsp; 4drs I have qualify as billon in my book after about Severus Alexander.&nbsp; We also see the term potin applied to them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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