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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JayAg47, post: 25346427, member: 112342&quot;]I think because Nero reduced the weight of the aureus from 1/40th of a Roman pound (about 8 g) to 1/45th of a Roman pound (7.3 g). As with Gresham&#039;s law &quot;bad money drives out good&quot; people hoarded higher weight early aureii while spent the lower weight coins, thus Nero&#039;s aureii are more common and worn. When Vespasian took over he had to repair the damages of civil war, and pay for the campaigns of the East as well as build the Colosseum, so he scraped up all coins, even taxing urine! This included the higher weight early aureii, which were melted to mint more coins conforming to the standard set by Nero.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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