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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jorglueke, post: 3563139, member: 103317&quot;]Generally speaking even Valerian&#039;s coins looked like coins. After his demise the coins of Gallienus and Claudius were garbage. Aurelian clearly made the coins look like coins again. He dealt with a revolt of mint workers (or an armed gang funded by a skimming mint master), and he shut down and moved the Milan mint. It is plausible to me that Aurelian at least wanted to maintain a standard or 4-5% silver. Probus likely continued this. Carus, Carinus, and Numerian seemed to have let the standard slip again. When Diocletian reforms the coinage he probably came up with a straight x# antoninianni = 1 argentus. If the Aurelian and Probus pieces had a standard of even 4-5% good silver and their immediate successors and predecessors had lower quality coinage then finding hoards of nearly pristine pieces of Probus and Aurelian makes a lot of sense. Just like people would pick out 90% silver coins from change after 1965.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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