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<p>[QUOTE="Brian Bucklan, post: 3420596, member: 76544"]Thanks [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER], very interesting write-up. I guess the counter to the idea that the populace was cutting the coins is that the mint was actually doing the trimming. Perhaps a dearth of copper could lead to this action. It also could be why this particular coin would be called out by Metcalf as being an "A3" size, with the size and weight of my example. Obviously the pieces he was seeing were for the most part this smaller size. If this trimming was a wide-spread practice you would think you could find it on many of the Anonymous Follis types of that time period .. but apparently not so much. In addition the trimming is very precise, not something you would expect from an untrained individual.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Brian Bucklan, post: 3420596, member: 76544"]Thanks [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER], very interesting write-up. I guess the counter to the idea that the populace was cutting the coins is that the mint was actually doing the trimming. Perhaps a dearth of copper could lead to this action. It also could be why this particular coin would be called out by Metcalf as being an "A3" size, with the size and weight of my example. Obviously the pieces he was seeing were for the most part this smaller size. If this trimming was a wide-spread practice you would think you could find it on many of the Anonymous Follis types of that time period .. but apparently not so much. In addition the trimming is very precise, not something you would expect from an untrained individual.[/QUOTE]
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