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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3515847, member: 72790&quot;]Like the reeding or lettering of later milled coins? Never thought of the serrati before in that sense but if that worked why would they not use it on all of their silver or gold coinage? By the way I have never seen or heard of gold coinage being serrated. Perhaps the Romans serrated their coinage when it was likely to be used by barbarians (as in Gaul at this time) who were more likely to clip the coinage than the Romans themselves. I do know later siliquae circa 400 AD were mercilessly clipped by either the Germanic barbarians or the Romans themselves. The Roman moneyers had to have a reason for this serrating process as each of these notches had to be done by hand (unless they had serrating machines) which involved considerable labor for those at the mint. Unless this was an added feature to create busy work for bored mint workers there had to be a rational reason for all this notching.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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