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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4879646, member: 110504&quot;]Wow.&nbsp; [USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER], I didn&#039;t even know Valerian or Gallienus <i>issued </i>sestertii.&nbsp; Your point about what the tariffing would look like, after the initial, Gallienian nadir of debasement, has to be dead on.&nbsp; [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] is likely right, although I have no idea when the infamous silver-washed tin issues began; could it be early (enough) in Gallienus&#039; sole reign?&nbsp; Meanwhile, the Gallic sestertii (and multiples) are conspicuously associated with Postumus&#039; reintroduction of antoniniani with appreciable silver content.&nbsp; ...Then again, I wonder if the replacement of bronze with tin as the metallic underlay might have been predicated on the initial appearance of the tin, after the silvering had worn off.&nbsp; Might it have looked more &#039;silvery&#039; than it does after most of two millennia?&nbsp; One might involuntarily think of 1943 Lincoln pennies, and how lousy the zinc tends to look, after a minute or two.</p><p>...Um, horn-tooting ensues.&nbsp; When I was 13, I won &#039;Best of Show&#039; at a local coin show, for a display about Roman debasement, c. Hadrian into the 4th century.&nbsp; There was an Old, Old monograph on the subject, maybe ANS, by Augustus John, on which I relied heavily.&nbsp; (Now long gone.)&nbsp; Surely a lot more has been done on the subject since then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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