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<p>[QUOTE="hotwheelsearl, post: 7411877, member: 75143"]It's really tough to tell some denominations' relationship to others; sometimes coins of very different sizes look absolutely identical and nobody knows whether they were different denominations, or just different sizes of the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is 33mm</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1288379[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is only 28mm</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1288380[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Both are the same coin, just I year apart in regnal year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Could metal color have distingushed? Possibly. Some early As and Dupondius coins looked rather identical (no radiate crowns or crescents) and the only way to tell the difference was the color - brown for the bronze As and yellow for the brass Dupondius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Problem is, by this point most have toned or patinated such that it's pretty impossible to tell which metal it is short of a destructive test. So, people end up calling them "middle bronzes," since they're unsure of the actual denomination.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hotwheelsearl, post: 7411877, member: 75143"]It's really tough to tell some denominations' relationship to others; sometimes coins of very different sizes look absolutely identical and nobody knows whether they were different denominations, or just different sizes of the same. This is 33mm [ATTACH=full]1288379[/ATTACH] This is only 28mm [ATTACH=full]1288380[/ATTACH] Both are the same coin, just I year apart in regnal year. Could metal color have distingushed? Possibly. Some early As and Dupondius coins looked rather identical (no radiate crowns or crescents) and the only way to tell the difference was the color - brown for the bronze As and yellow for the brass Dupondius. Problem is, by this point most have toned or patinated such that it's pretty impossible to tell which metal it is short of a destructive test. So, people end up calling them "middle bronzes," since they're unsure of the actual denomination.[/QUOTE]
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