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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 1876375, member: 57495&quot;]Thanks for the posting the coin again and for the writeup.&nbsp; A really beautiful piece!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For awhile I thought those figures referred to the weight of the denarius... they in fact refer to the weight of the silver in the denarius.&nbsp; The source </p><p>(<a href="http://www.tulane.edu/~august/handouts/601cprin.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tulane.edu/~august/handouts/601cprin.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.tulane.edu/~august/handouts/601cprin.htm</a>) provides the corresponding weight of the denarii as 3.21g (107-148 AD) and 3.23g (148-161 AD).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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