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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4885769, member: 110350"]An interesting question I've never thought about, and the answers I found (by scrolling through my personal coin catalog) surprised me a little.</p><p><br /></p><p>Largest in diameter: Julia Paula (21 mm) and Julia Mamaea (20.5 mm.) Oddly enough, they're both very much on the light side (2.49 and 2.88 g., respectively), although not my lightest.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1178936[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1178926[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Smallest flan in diameter: L. Roscius Fabatus serrate denarius (Juno Sospita/Maiden feeding snake), 16 mm. (but 3.93 g.) It looks like it was probably clipped around the rim.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1178927[/ATTACH]</p><p>Heaviest in grams: L. Piso Frugi (Apollo/horseman) (4.02 g.) and Aulus Plautius (Cybele/Bacchius Judaeus with camel) (4.25 g.).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1178928[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1178930[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Lightest in grams: I have a half-dozen between 2.49 and 3.0 g., but the two lightest by quite a bit are my denarii of Macrinus (1.58 g.) and Maximus Caesar (son of Maximinus Thrax) (1.7 g.) Both are 19 mm. in diameter.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1178931[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1178932[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] and [USER=112342]@JayAg47[/USER], does any of this have any significance? I have no idea, although I remember wondering when I bought the last two why they were so light.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4885769, member: 110350"]An interesting question I've never thought about, and the answers I found (by scrolling through my personal coin catalog) surprised me a little. Largest in diameter: Julia Paula (21 mm) and Julia Mamaea (20.5 mm.) Oddly enough, they're both very much on the light side (2.49 and 2.88 g., respectively), although not my lightest. [ATTACH=full]1178936[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1178926[/ATTACH] Smallest flan in diameter: L. Roscius Fabatus serrate denarius (Juno Sospita/Maiden feeding snake), 16 mm. (but 3.93 g.) It looks like it was probably clipped around the rim. [ATTACH=full]1178927[/ATTACH] Heaviest in grams: L. Piso Frugi (Apollo/horseman) (4.02 g.) and Aulus Plautius (Cybele/Bacchius Judaeus with camel) (4.25 g.). [ATTACH=full]1178928[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1178930[/ATTACH] Lightest in grams: I have a half-dozen between 2.49 and 3.0 g., but the two lightest by quite a bit are my denarii of Macrinus (1.58 g.) and Maximus Caesar (son of Maximinus Thrax) (1.7 g.) Both are 19 mm. in diameter. [ATTACH=full]1178931[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1178932[/ATTACH] [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] and [USER=112342]@JayAg47[/USER], does any of this have any significance? I have no idea, although I remember wondering when I bought the last two why they were so light.[/QUOTE]
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