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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 7818945, member: 84905&quot;]Hi Al, your first coin is my second coin. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently, there are two groups of these silver coins: a heavy group that is near the target weight and a light group that is well below the target weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since both groups show the same designs they were probably meant to be the same denominations. Hence, the second, light group, which also shows particularly barbarous elements, was declared &quot;imitative&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, was this group really produced by a barbarian people, as auction houses seem to believe, or is it &quot;inflation money&quot; produced by official mints to reap seigniorage for the imperial coffers? Unfortunately, we don&#039;t know. Hoard and find spot evidence could be of great help to decide the question.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first, heavy group also includes a lot of rather barbaric design elements, like my first coin above, which was also sold as &quot;barbaric imitation&quot;. However, I think even for the official Leo I siliquae the stylistic elements were poorly controlled and all the coins may in fact be official. In this case, I would also not be surprised if the rather barbaric looking Tremisses were poorly controlled official issues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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