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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3078346, member: 85693&quot;]As Sallent says, there are a lot of variations with these.&nbsp; A great place to find a &quot;quantitative analysis&quot; of a particular issue is the OCRC site.&nbsp; They crunch the numbers on the examples in their database.&nbsp; For RIC 84 Gordian III they have a lot of examples, and here are their results:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Quantitative Analysis</b></font></p><p>Average measurements for this coin type:</p><p>Axis</p><p>8.35</p><p>Diameter</p><p>22.23</p><p>Weight</p><p>4.26</p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.gor_iii.84" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.gor_iii.84" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.gor_iii.84</a></p><p>In their examples, one from the University of Graz is only 3.12 grams, but one from the American Numismatic Society weighs 5.39 grams.&nbsp; And everything in between.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>There have been other posts here on the topic too:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/variable-weights-of-double-denarius.259110/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/variable-weights-of-double-denarius.259110/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/variable-weights-of-double-denarius.259110/</a></p><p>A while back I posted two examples of RIC 84 in my collection that vary wildly in weights.&nbsp; This was part of a wider discussion:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-i-bought-a-gordian-iii-today.304825/page-2" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-i-bought-a-gordian-iii-today.304825/page-2">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-i-bought-a-gordian-iii-today.304825/page-2</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my part of that older thread: </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is Gordian III situation I wanted to run by you all. Below are 2 Gordian III&#039;s with the JOVI STATORI reverse (RIC 84). The dark one (on the left) I bought almost 30 years ago from a dealer in Ohio. The other one (right) I got late last year off eBay (it was apparently an ex-Littleton Coin offering). Here is the dilemma:</p><p><br /></p><p>Dark toned example weight: 4.18 grams</p><p>Shiny example weight: 1.82 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d say the shiny one is a fake, but nothing else about it says &quot;fake&quot; to me - the flan is indeed kind of thin for these, but the style looks good, the strike looks good. It has very little wear, so I can&#039;t blame wear for the low weight. Anyway, here they are:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]774736[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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