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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 4584101, member: 82616&quot;]In their <i>The Metallurgy of Roman Silver Coinage </i>Butcher and Ponting found on average that Flavian Cappadocian Caesarean silver issues had a fineness of around 48%. The didrachm with an average weight of 6.85g contained about 3.29g of silver, the drachm at 3.4g in weight contained 1.63g of silver. The average contemporary denarius contained 2.72g of silver. If a Caesarean drachm and denarius were of equal value then the Caesarean coinage was overvalued by 67%!</p><p><br /></p><p>NB: Overvaluation against the denarius also occurred with Flavian cistophori. Late in Domitian&#039;s reign three denarii contained about 9.32g of silver and his cistophori contained around 8.12g - an overvaluation of 15%. Before Domitian&#039;s coinage reforms in 82 the overvaluation of one cistophorus against three denarii was nearer 7%-9% with effective parity between the two denominations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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