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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2961241, member: 19463&quot;]How do you determine that a fraction is 1/4 or 1/8 rather than 1/5 or 1/10? The last I read suggested the radiate was 2/5 of the full follis but I do not know if that is a theory or something derived from solid records. </p><p><br /></p><p>My only Vota is from Carthage like bsr045&#039;s radiate coin.&nbsp; Laureate and half that size are these Genius fractions of Galerius and Constantius from Siscia. You call them &quot;larger&quot; but mine are 2.2 and 2.3g and a quick scan of your examples suggests a wide range of weights as might be expected from non-silver bearing coins.&nbsp; RIC calls them 1/4 folles but I do not know on what basis. They were not issued silvered as I understand the matter.&nbsp; No?&nbsp; Since the silvered, full folles were silver bearing (4.7% or less) there seems to be little value allowed for the silver depending on what date is assigned to the fractions.&nbsp;&nbsp; I find the whole matter of the fractions incomprehensible.&nbsp; Were they coins or special purpose tokens (obviously this question is lifted from the Anonymous Pagan &#039;fractions&#039; which I can&#039;t assign a certain place in the system either)?</p><p>Galerius [ATTACH=full]724795[/ATTACH] </p><p>Constantius I</p><p>[ATTACH=full]724794[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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