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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andres2, post: 2839849, member: 79017&quot;]The story is that the Antoniniani were debased between 240 and 270 AD from 40% fineness to 5% silver fineness.</p><p>The mints used a special heating and cooling down method to put the silver mostly on the surface and the copper mostly in the core.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably didn&#039;t work out very well in all the various&nbsp; mints in the Roman empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looks near 100% silver , but actually no more then 40% fineness:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]671522[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This Volusian looks OK too, silver fineness 30%</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]671527[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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