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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brassnautilus, post: 2130028, member: 74300&quot;]Maybe it&#039;s thin?</p><p>That&#039;s why I thought this might be a cistophoric tetradrachm.</p><p>In fact, some were stacked on coins with low relief, and a good strike could pretty much clear out the previous image. </p><p>Here&#039;s one stacked on a mark antony coin, noticed it also underweight?</p><p><a href="http://vilmarnumismatics.com/product/hadrian-silver-cistophoric-tetradrachm-overstruck-on-mark-antony-coin-very-interesting-good-vf-roman-imperial-coin/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://vilmarnumismatics.com/product/hadrian-silver-cistophoric-tetradrachm-overstruck-on-mark-antony-coin-very-interesting-good-vf-roman-imperial-coin/" rel="nofollow">http://vilmarnumismatics.com/product/hadrian-silver-cistophoric-tetradrachm-overstruck-on-mark-antony-coin-very-interesting-good-vf-roman-imperial-coin/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Generations of roman issued these funny money, Nerva, Trajan, Claudius.. Hadrian was the last one known to have done that. </p><p><br /></p><p>Problem with such theory is that cistophoric tetradrachms weren&#039;t struck by every mint in the empire, and the egypt mint was not known to had produced those.</p><p>That type of demeter figure, on other hand, was only produced by the egypt mint <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Essentially, problem here is that even an underweight normal tet should be close to 12g. 10.2 is towards the low end of even cistophoric tets...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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