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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 487134, member: 9204&quot;]Orichalcum is a brass alloy that, during the early Roman empire, was valued at twice that of copper</p><p><br /></p><p>The miliarensis was one of the larger silver coins issued during the Constantinian dynasty. We do not know the names for the bronze denominations, so we simply call them AE1-4. However, it is likely that the largest AE2 bronze coin, first issued in 354 by Constantius II, was known as a cententionalis. The coin you&#039;re thinking of is the follis, first issued under Diocletian and debased to only a quarter of its original size by 320 AD. By the way, the name follis is a conjecture too, from the Latin word for bag because it would take a bag of them to purchase a solidus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t worry too much about those provincials. I&#039;ve seen a lot of them overcleaned in the same manner. Try using some darkeners to repatinate them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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