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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 7966832, member: 84905&quot;]I found the coin below and bought it only because the seller gave a weight of 5.54g, which I could not quite believe. However, I got the coin and confirmed the weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv.: IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG</p><p>Rev.: VICTORIA AVGG</p><p>Mint: Rome</p><p><b>Weight: 5.54 g. (23 mm). </b></p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 124; RSC 218; cf Sear 9991.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1381387[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I thought the standard weight at the time would be somewhere around 4.0g, with many coins even below that. Skimming through Acsearch I found heavy coins reaching up to 5g, but the piece above seem to set the record.</p><p><br /></p><p>Weight control seemed to have been very poor at the time. In addition, the coin is of comparably good silver and it didn&#039;t apparently matter that its weight was almost twice as much as some other Antoniniae of Valerian.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anybody have such a whopper of an Antoninian like the one above? I&#039;d like to see it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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