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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3308001, member: 19463&quot;]If I understand what you are wanting to show here, I suggest you get a later period antoninianus of Aurelian through the Tetrarchy showing XXI in exergue indicating an alloy of 1 part silver and 20 parts copper.&nbsp; Following that you might want a silvered fallin horseman of the AE2 size which contained even less silver.&nbsp; You can decide when the silver was so low that you stop calling it billon.&nbsp; After Gallienus most &#039;silver&#039; coins needed a silver was to remind people there was a bit of silver in the alloy.&nbsp; We usually call these AE or bronze but the fact remains there was silver in the mix.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aurelian XXI with silver wash partially remaining</p><p>[ATTACH=full]876545[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Constantius II with less silver (2%???) also with silver wash</p><p>[ATTACH=full]876546[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>At the same time as the earliest falling horseman the mint issued a second denomination with about half the silver with left facing busts and several reverses.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have one of these with retained silver was to show but alloy tests have shown there is a bit there.&nbsp; No one calls these last two billon but they are &#039;silver&#039; bearing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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