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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 679328, member: 19463&quot;]I believe the one standard version lasted until about 341 AD when it was replaced by the even smaller two victories type.&nbsp; The earlier version (pre-335) with two standards weighs more than the type with only one standard.&nbsp; Roman inflation worked a bit differently than what we have today.&nbsp; As the money dropped in value, the new coins came out in smaller sizes until someone blew a whistle and announced a currency reform with a new denomination calling in all the old money.&nbsp; This happened several times in the 4th and 5th centuries and we don&#039;t have 100% clear scholarship on all of the steps between the pretty round coins of 300 AD and the &quot;smashed BB&#039;s&quot; that circulated when Anastasius did his reform and started what we call Byzantine coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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