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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2106762, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7571" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7571" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7571</a></p><p>The standard explanation of this type is Apollo standing holding a branch and resting his elbow on a tripod ---- no snake.&nbsp;&nbsp; The above link shows a better example of the type.&nbsp; Apollo is often shown with a branch and tripod.&nbsp; Compare this coin from 500 years earlier.</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1201380" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1201380" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1201380</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Silver content varies with some having next to none and some better but still needing the wash to look silver.&nbsp; Sometimes the wash may have actually been silver while others may have had other white metals.&nbsp; There were several mints and several years involved before Aurelian more or less standardized things on one part silver to 20 parts copper and marked the coins XXI or KA to attest that the metal was as advertised.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/aurelian.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/aurelian.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/aurelian.html</a></p><p>Gallienus started the silver wash idea in his later years but most coins we call AE were expected to have some silver for another century.&nbsp;&nbsp; There were a few unwashed and non-silver containing issues mixed it along the way.&nbsp; Relatively few collectors today study metal content to great extent but there have been some scientific papers on some periods.&nbsp; In the time of Gallienus, it seemed pretty chaotic and fell quickly from decent looking silver coins in the earliest years to pretty straight copper at the end.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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