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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 5465517, member: 84744"]Thanks for the further work, [USER=80783]@Julius Germanicus[/USER]! I think your introduction of the Genius types (INT VRB, though they don't all have this legend) is key. I checked out the <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42667030?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42667030?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents" rel="nofollow">Yonge paper</a> on these, and it really puts a lot of stuff together quite convincingly.</p><p><br /></p><p><b> Yonge argues that the Aurelian laureate bronzes are sestertii</b> coming at the end of a natural reduction in module proceeding from early in the sole reign of Gallienus, through the Genius types and Claudius II (there are rare laureates for him <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems pretty clear that the Genius types came at the end of Gallienus's reign. Note that we need to distinguish the radiate from the laureate Genius types. The laureates fall in nicely as sestertii, with the radiates as double sestertii. (This would mean the last asses came in 260-62, like my Salonina above.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my own numbers from acsearch, which I think bear the Yonge story out pretty well. I've listed them chronologically within the two denominations. "Central range" means the range excluding outliers. (Esp. important under Gallienus when production values were so poor.) As you can see, there's a nice weight-reduction progression paired with a very slight reduction in diameter. For the double-sestertii the reduction in diameter is only reflected in <i>die</i> diameter. (I get the die diameter measurements from Yonge. I've <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/severus-alexander-222-235-ad.373047/#post-5387574" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/severus-alexander-222-235-ad.373047/#post-5387574">had earlier occasion to remark</a> that die diameter is something we should pay more attention to.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1237980[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm convinced the Aurelian OP coins are sestertii, and [USER=4298]@Cucumbor[/USER]'s is a double sestertius. That's how I'll be listing them in future, at least.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 5465517, member: 84744"]Thanks for the further work, [USER=80783]@Julius Germanicus[/USER]! I think your introduction of the Genius types (INT VRB, though they don't all have this legend) is key. I checked out the [URL='https://www.jstor.org/stable/42667030?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents']Yonge paper[/URL] on these, and it really puts a lot of stuff together quite convincingly. [B] Yonge argues that the Aurelian laureate bronzes are sestertii[/B] coming at the end of a natural reduction in module proceeding from early in the sole reign of Gallienus, through the Genius types and Claudius II (there are rare laureates for him :jawdrop:). It seems pretty clear that the Genius types came at the end of Gallienus's reign. Note that we need to distinguish the radiate from the laureate Genius types. The laureates fall in nicely as sestertii, with the radiates as double sestertii. (This would mean the last asses came in 260-62, like my Salonina above.) Here are my own numbers from acsearch, which I think bear the Yonge story out pretty well. I've listed them chronologically within the two denominations. "Central range" means the range excluding outliers. (Esp. important under Gallienus when production values were so poor.) As you can see, there's a nice weight-reduction progression paired with a very slight reduction in diameter. For the double-sestertii the reduction in diameter is only reflected in [I]die[/I] diameter. (I get the die diameter measurements from Yonge. I've [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/severus-alexander-222-235-ad.373047/#post-5387574']had earlier occasion to remark[/URL] that die diameter is something we should pay more attention to.) [ATTACH=full]1237980[/ATTACH] I'm convinced the Aurelian OP coins are sestertii, and [USER=4298]@Cucumbor[/USER]'s is a double sestertius. That's how I'll be listing them in future, at least.[/QUOTE]
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