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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2486558, member: 19463&quot;]Insider:&nbsp; No, not all of these are this thick.&nbsp; Some are thicker; some thinner.&nbsp; Looking at the ones on coin archives, you can find some in the 10+g range and some in the 13+g range.&nbsp; I have not done a study of what the highest and lowest known are but weights were not the first consideration on these.&nbsp; I am no fan of this particular thing which means I only have 3 or 4 others (remember I choose to buy ten lesser coins than one MS - they are more educational and I don&#039;t plan to sell them when I buy).&nbsp; One similar coin I do have is this Philip II Caesar of Antioch which weighs 15.3g.&nbsp; I bought it from a dealer I trust more than 95% I know in 2001.&nbsp; Weight is not a big thing on these.&nbsp; It does not have filed edges.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]525540[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>One last photo is from my page on fabric </p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fabric.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fabric.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fabric.html</a></p><p>and shows a stack of four AE coins from this period and region (some, not all, were Antioch).</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fabedge.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Each not only has scratches but show a diagonal angle to those scratches that suggest to me that the flans might have been stacked in a clamp and filed by a right handed worker.&nbsp; Can I prove that?&nbsp; Certainly not!&nbsp; Do these scratches match those on the OP billon tet?&nbsp; Not at all. Have I seen this discussed in scholarly literature?&nbsp; What scholarly literature would you suggest I check?&nbsp;&nbsp; Will it be mentioned in RPC VIII?&nbsp; Does this mean that round coins were fashionable that year?&nbsp; Does it mean anything?&nbsp; Questions are many; answers are few.&nbsp; The more I learn, the less I know.&nbsp; The point here was to generate thought.&nbsp; Perhaps we succeeded.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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