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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3006634, member: 85693&quot;]By &quot;silver&quot; in this context I mean silver-looking - like Alegandron&#039;s attractive antelope above.&nbsp; The definition of &quot;billon&quot; always kind of confused me - anything 40% or less?&nbsp; That makes everything from c. Septimius Severus onward &quot;billon&quot; which seems kind of broad to me (is 2% silver still billon?).&nbsp; Wikipedia was vague on this matter. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the case of Philip the Arab&#039;s antoninianii, I was interested in the differences in appearance and weight - and I have no theories as to why there were such variations (for weight, Doug&#039;s muffin batter analogy seems plausible to me).&nbsp; Some of the scholarly sources try to hard to nail down debasement figures that I think they miss the obvious point:&nbsp; that variation <i>within the same coin type</i> are so huge that it is really hard to nail down just when these debasements happened (and where, too). </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, here are my three Philip ADVENTVS antoninianii.&nbsp; The weights, from left to right are:&nbsp; 3.21 grams; 4.51 grams; 3.70 grams.&nbsp; The one on the left is the one I posted above, but in brighter light - it is very dark and looks like something all-bronze put out by Aurelian.&nbsp; The other two look a lot more &quot;silvery&quot;.&nbsp; The middle one has a thicker flan (thus the significant weight difference).&nbsp; Styles all look &quot;official&quot; to me.&nbsp; Wear is roughly the same. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]745071[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]745072[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 3.21 grams&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 4.51 grams&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 3.70 grams[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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