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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2783559, member: 74282&quot;]No. The scoop was a way of removing weight from overweight <i>batches</i>. Current thinking is that the Roman mint would produce batches of blanks where it was expected that X pounds of silver made Y number of blanks and the coins were weighed as a batch, as weighing individual blanks would take too long and there&#039;s little evidence that the Romans were extremely concerned with the weight of individual coins. If the batch was too heavy, random blanks were gouged to lower the weight of the batch. Too light and the batch likely had to be melted and redone, so heavy batches that could be gouged if need be were likely preferred to light batches.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://stannard.info/stannard_adjustment_al%20marco_of_denarii_blanks.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://stannard.info/stannard_adjustment_al%20marco_of_denarii_blanks.pdf" rel="nofollow">Here </a>is a paper on the phenomenon by Clive Stannard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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