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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roma, post: 3001481, member: 93393&quot;]I think it is relevant to the discussion to post this Caesar denarius adjusted al marco.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There were a number of denarii that had to be minted with an ingot of a specific weight so happened that at the end of the process there weren’t enough silver to mint them all. When they realized it, a common practice was to remove silver with a gauge from overweight denarii.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is coin is a sample of how appear a coin adjusted al marco.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a specimens from my collection adjusted Marco and with a graffiti on the obverse, on the reverse some punch mark.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here a link to a publication of Clive Stannard were this process is described.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.stannard.info/website/Publications.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stannard.info/website/Publications.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.stannard.info/website/Publications.html</a>[ATTACH=full]742734[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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