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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2686985, member: 74282"]There are a few things to remember here. First: the weight standards declined over the years. The earliest struck bronze asses for instance started out around 60-70 grams and the earliest denarii about 4.5 grams. The bronze quickly declined to a 40 or so gram as and a 4 gram or so denarius. By the time of the social war the bronze as was about 10 grams and the denarius about 3.9g and during the Imperatorial period you had issues like Antony's at an event lower weight standard. On top of that, single coin weights evidently mattered little to the Romans. Coins were made a certain number to a pound of silver or bronze, so the weight of the batch was more important than the weight of a single coin and while the denarii are almost always in the 3.5g-4.5g range there are exceptions and it is even weirder with the bronzes. I have in my photofile die matched pairs where one example is nearly twice the weight of the other. Both were on the extreme end of the weight scale but it goes to show that these things are flexible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2686985, member: 74282"]There are a few things to remember here. First: the weight standards declined over the years. The earliest struck bronze asses for instance started out around 60-70 grams and the earliest denarii about 4.5 grams. The bronze quickly declined to a 40 or so gram as and a 4 gram or so denarius. By the time of the social war the bronze as was about 10 grams and the denarius about 3.9g and during the Imperatorial period you had issues like Antony's at an event lower weight standard. On top of that, single coin weights evidently mattered little to the Romans. Coins were made a certain number to a pound of silver or bronze, so the weight of the batch was more important than the weight of a single coin and while the denarii are almost always in the 3.5g-4.5g range there are exceptions and it is even weirder with the bronzes. I have in my photofile die matched pairs where one example is nearly twice the weight of the other. Both were on the extreme end of the weight scale but it goes to show that these things are flexible.[/QUOTE]
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