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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1171885, member: 19463&quot;]Brockages:&nbsp; I have not been convinced that the same people issued each of the Republican issues rather than the moneyers contracted the teams individually making a variation in what was acceptable and what not.&nbsp; Another answer might be a technical discovery that made it less likely that a coin would stick in the die so brockages were actually produced less often after they discovered the trick.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What is considered an error by one culture might just be a variation to another so it makes sense that some issues might not have seen anything wrong with brockages worth correcting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Weights: More issuers of coins were concerned with a certain number coins being produced from a certain amount of metal than that each coin weighed exactly the average.&nbsp; To what extent the man on the street cared whether he had a 3.7g denarius rather than a 3.1g one, I am not sure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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