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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 8163604, member: 89514&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>Could you explain to us why you pass over Mommsen&#039;s theory that, as their legend declares, the denarii of Marcus and Verus were restored coins just like the restored republican denarii of Trajan? </p><p><br /></p><p>Because of the low silver content of the originals, Mommsen proposed that their recoinage was not undertaken by Trajan, but only by Marcus and Verus, with the purpose not to commemorate the anniversary of the battle of Actium, but simply to make a profit for the emperors.</p><p><br /></p><p>The restored republican denarii of Trajan are all so rare that I&#039;d be surprised if more than half a dozen of them have turned up in all recorded hoards. Walker analyzed the three specimens in the Oxford collection for his Metrology of the Roman Silver Coinage (1977), but his results are now generally recognized as being invalid due to his failure to avoid the problem of surface enrichment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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