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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2471922, member: 76086&quot;]This obsession with weights is a new thing, maybe 10 years or so old.&nbsp; True, weights have been studied for many decades (or even the past 100 years or so), but there are great variations in weights with ancient coins.&nbsp; Yes, we can have an average known weight, but it may be more important to know what the bell curve may be for an issue.&nbsp; In the current climate it is expected that a coin be weighed to the hundredth of a gram, so you should buy any scale that shows that.&nbsp; Not sure why, the ancients might have been able to do so but it was not that important to the individual coin.&nbsp; The more important component was striking raw metal into coins.&nbsp; If the mint got extra coins out of the strike, all the better.&nbsp; But one can see from infinite studies already done, even a coin as light as a denarius can vary quite wildly in it weight.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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