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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24854038, member: 26430&quot;]If you search on ACSearch by including only the first two digits of the weight, e.g., 2.7, it will show results for any coins described as 2.70-2.79. <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=trajan+denarius+2.7&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=trajan+denarius+2.7&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=1" rel="nofollow">There are 493 results in that weight range</a> (including some duplicates and inappropriate returns).</p><p><br /></p><p>There are <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=trajan+denarius+2.6&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=trajan+denarius+2.6&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=1" rel="nofollow">298 results in the 2.60-2.69 range</a>. So, your coin is not exceptionally underweight, but it is down on the low end relative to coins appearing in single lots at major auctions (probably in the lightest 2-4% <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=trajan+denarius&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=trajan+denarius&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=1" rel="nofollow">of all <i>Trajan Denarius</i> results</a>, though you could refine that result in various ways).</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, you can use that method to construct a rough frequency distribution of weights for any kind of coin with enough recorded cases in the database. (E.g., 2.80-2.89 = 838 results... the peak, as you suggested, is between 3.10 and 3.39, with each 0.10g interval returning 3,000 - 3,100 results.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Or to assist in provenance searching. (First thing I do when researching any coin is search for other specimens withing a few 0.01g on either side to see if there are any sales in ACSearch that I don&#039;t know about.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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