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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3100219, member: 19463&quot;]100% agree.&nbsp; It is fun.&nbsp; The reasoning is possible and impossible to prove.&nbsp; I will point out that a Gordian as and and A3 follis weigh the same. </p><p><br /></p><p>I like Byzantine overstrikes but such coins exist from other periods, too.&nbsp; I find it helpful to rotate photos to show each orientation.&nbsp; This is Gallus FH3 (Siscia?) over Constantius II two captives from Aquileia.&nbsp; Note the let facing portrait is easier to see in the upper left image than in the lower right.&nbsp; By the time the horseman was reduced to the series with II in the reverse field, the middle size coin of the first FTR years was the right size.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]784502[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan Decius struck this antoninianus over a denarius of Geta.&nbsp; I have seen others of this period so I suspect there was a desire to double the face value of the coins. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]784503[/ATTACH] </p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/tdoscol.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/getacol.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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