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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 3548798, member: 86498&quot;]RAG Carson in his book &quot; Coins of the Roman Empire&quot; page 234 states...&quot; there is reason to believe that under Severus Alexander the denarius was tariffed at 50 to the aureus: and consequently, by the time of Trajan Decius, the equivilent of the aureus was now 50 antoniniani.&quot; If this happened this might explain the disappearance of the aes denominations. The main problem is that nowhere does he discuss the ratio of the sestertius to the aureus during these revaluations. if the sestertius dropped in value along with the silver coins thus&nbsp; becoming first a coin 1/200 to an aureus and then 1/400 to the aureus then their demise is pretty well a forgone conclusion. However even if the sestertius retained its value&nbsp; against the aureus, the aes coins were doomed as they would be competing with antoninianii which are basically double sestertii and the devalued older denarii which are now the equivalent of a sestertius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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