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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4792297, member: 19463&quot;]That is quite a reduction since most asses seem to fall in the 6-9g range.&nbsp; I have not seen a semis completely cleaned to bare metal to show if there is an alloy match between them and either dupondii or asses.&nbsp; My hunch is that later bronzes did not pay as much attention to alloy as the early ones so seeing the metal might not help as much as we might like.&nbsp; Earlier semises tended to be orichalcum like the dupondius and the TD semises can be closer to a quarter the weight of a dupondius that a half which would suggest an as.&nbsp; This is why I say we need a lot more information from thousands of coins before we understand the size variations.&nbsp; It could be just a matter of random &quot;we don&#039;t care&quot; but I don&#039;t know enough to accept that either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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