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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2522691, member: 19463&quot;]Agree!&nbsp; That is a nice one from the period when the coins were at their largest.&nbsp; Icerain&#039;s coin is nice, too, but by year 20 the shrinking was well under way.&nbsp; The Byzantines took size/weight of their copper coins seriously and trimmed down and overstruck many coins to profit from the declining standards.&nbsp; My example is a Constans II one century later and down to 3.3g for the same 40 nummi (M) denomination.&nbsp; I&#039;d say this is remarkable but consider the relative value of a 1916 quarter and the 2016 version we spend today.&nbsp; Par for the course, it seems.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]538109[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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