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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;thejewk, post: 5187213, member: 100136&quot;][USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER] you&#039;ve got a good eye.&nbsp; The mint staff are indeed believed to have come from Trier when the travelling mint made the &#039;invasion coinage&#039;, and their influence and style lives on at the mint for a good few years amongst the early issues.&nbsp; Unfortunately these issues are very rare, and so I don&#039;t have any yet, but it is possible to find both Trier style portraits and also Allectus style portraits amongst these issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also the #7 coin is indeed light for the time, by about 2g from the theoretical standard, and is very thin.&nbsp; The weights of the coins during the first and second reduction are rather inconsistent.&nbsp; One of my coins from the first reduction, which have only 1mm bigger beaded circle, is over 7g and is substantially thicker. Sometimes dies from first reduction coins were used on flans of second reduction weight, and vice versa.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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