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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rasielsuarez, post: 26189147, member: 148921&quot;]Wikipedia comes closest on average. The real figure is more nuanced because the amount of silver was quite variable during these years; sometimes going as low as 58% or as high as 97%. This suggests that the mints got by as best they could with what they had available. It wasn&#039;t as simple as new emperor shows up and says &quot;ok boys, the new target is X&quot; and they dialed in the new number. Metallurgy tech of this age was imprecise so you&#039;d probably even find coins with significant deviations minted in the same batch. One way to confirm this would be to test die-matched coins. Hopefully I can do this at some point.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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