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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;briac michaux, post: 10368043, member: 143064&quot;]Please, you are a scientist, </p><p><br /></p><p>density of Gold 19.3</p><p>density of silver 10.5</p><p>density of copper 8.9</p><p><br /></p><p>according with your results,&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Gordian 2.77% silver 0.54% copper (higly purified for the sponsian serie)</p><p>Philip&nbsp; around 5% silver and 0.5% copper</p><p>Sponsianus 3.83% silver and 3.39% copper</p><p><br /></p><p>so they managed to maintain the separation of gold and silver but they did not know how to remove the copper which is nevertheless lighter and therefore easier to separate?</p><p><br /></p><p>do you seriouly believe in your theory or are you looking for answers at all costs in the hope that it will help sell your book?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>doing moulds with 1 matrix give always the same mould, (see Hollard 2001) </p><p><br /></p><p>on the so called Sponsianus serie all coins from same type have different shape so they are comming from different moulds and moulds have been made on different matrix </p><p><br /></p><p>just do the test press 1 coin or one seal in modeling clay 5 times, you will get 5 times exactly the same mark. and if you try to cast sometsohing in those marks you will get 5 times the same cast item. but here with 1 matrix we have always different &quot;coins&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Left Glasgow, middle Paris, right Vienna </p><p><a href="https://servimg.com/view/11008158/2167" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://servimg.com/view/11008158/2167" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i25.servimg.com/u/f25/11/00/81/58/sponsi10.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Ancient forger had no interest to work on shapes like thisn only modern faker have interest to do it. </p><p><br /></p><p>so the question is how do you explain the various shapes for &quot;coins&quot; of same type ? </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>you so never saw the clay moulds for coins or you didn&#039;t understood how they have been used.&nbsp; I will help you with the picture of the one in my collection</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://servimg.com/view/11008158/2165" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://servimg.com/view/11008158/2165" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i25.servimg.com/u/f25/11/00/81/58/93121911.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>those are not placed horizontally but vertically to be filled </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://servimg.com/view/11008158/2166" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://servimg.com/view/11008158/2166" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i25.servimg.com/u/f25/11/00/81/58/moulag10.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>the round hole where the worker is filling the mould on this picture is the cut between 11 and 2 O&#039;clock on my mould so totally filled mould give compleet tokens, partially filled mould give partial tokens</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://servimg.com/view/11008158/2168" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://servimg.com/view/11008158/2168" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i25.servimg.com/u/f25/11/00/81/58/sans_t11.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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