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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3105869, member: 19463&quot;]Billon probably looked fine when new but we see them today in many degrees of degradation.&nbsp; It took the denarius a couple centuries to go from 1st century sparkle to what we could hardly recognize as silver bearing.&nbsp; When Diocletian started over with silver we call argentii, we may not have been as pure as Augustus&#039; denarii but Maximinus here has a silver grade that compressed a century worth of debasement into a year.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am a big fan of billon coins of Alexandria so I am well aware of how good and how bad coins can be after surviving all these years.&nbsp; I do wonder how each of the extremes looked compared each other when made.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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