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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikjo0, post: 162894, member: 3565&quot;]Adam,</p><p>I&#039;m positive.</p><p>All the letters of the inscription fall right into place.If you look closely at your coin photos,you can see where these are placed.I&#039;ve drawn over them in red to show approximately how they are laid out. ..Roman style with spaces and word placement wherever it was convenient.</p><p>DNVALEN&nbsp; SPFAVG</p><p>GLORIARO&nbsp; MANORVM&nbsp; &nbsp; BSISC</p><p>As to your question about production,maybe this will help.</p><p>&quot;With very few exceptions, namely mould-cast coins (Spain, Italy), all ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins were struck. The flans (or blanks) were normally produced by casting or were cut from moulded rods and then they were hammered between an immobile and a mobile die, which were made of a harder metal (e.g. iron). When the flan was large it was usually heated before the striking (‘sheet-shaped’ and ‘flattened’ coins). Struck coins were produced until quite recent times, when the use of automatic presses became widespread. The shape and thickness of coins varied from era to era and depended on the degree of perfection of the production method&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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