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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2996094, member: 19463&quot;]I don&#039;t know either but that does not stop me from having an opinion.&nbsp; My observation is that many coins of secondary persons (women and Caesars) seem to be a bit lighter and less professionally produced than some of the coins made in the name of the Augustus.&nbsp; I would like to see a study of a thousand denarii of Crispina and a thousand denarii of Commodus from the same years that coins were made for her to see if this holds true.&nbsp; Without such a study, this is not a theory but just a wild guess.&nbsp;&nbsp; Guess #2 is that coins of less common persons are in greater demand in the hobby than the more common coins of the Augusti.&nbsp; That might mean that a hoard of a thousand coins of the period would be cherrypicked&nbsp; by sorters to include slightly lower quality Crispinas than the more common Commodus coins at any given price point.&nbsp;&nbsp; There was a time in the middle of the last century when lower grade, common denarii were available in bulk at melt.&nbsp; Collectors prefer nice coins and coins of persons they lack.&nbsp; That means we are offered lesser quality Crispinas than we are Commodus culls.&nbsp; Guessing is fun.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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