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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2770229, member: 19463&quot;]There are so many errors in this blurb that I just don&#039;t know where to start.&nbsp; The coins did not have a 5% silver coating but were made of an alloy one part silver and 20 parts base metal (mostly copper) which works out to be 4.77% using the way we do things now saying one part in a total of 21 parts.&nbsp; It was the alloy and had nothing to do with a value in sestertii or denarii of account.&nbsp; The inventors of the term wanted to recognize that Aurelian reformed the mint and enforced a metal standard that had fallen to a level in the period ending with his earliest issues that had no silver to speak of in the silver coinage.&nbsp; Before and after his reform, it was necessary to apply a silver wash to make the coins look silver.&nbsp; I consider the term aurelianianus a bit pretentious and, as stated in the piece, both terms are inventions of modern numismatists or collectors.&nbsp; &nbsp; I have a page:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac73xxi.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac73xxi.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac73xxi.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I wish you had showed the whole slab as well.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to know how they graded it.&nbsp; The coin has little wear but was struck weakly erasing detail from the head and eliminating the right figure on the reverse.&nbsp; Compare a similar coin below in these areas.&nbsp; If the slabbers gave it a high grade, you will get much more for the coin in the slab than if you break it out and force people to think for themselves.&nbsp; Slabs are fine for selling back and forth between people who have not studied the subject but want an ancient coin.&nbsp; The cost of putting a coin this in a slab exceeds the value of the coin (IMHO) so breaking it out would halve your potential return.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]638622[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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