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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2077938, member: 19463&quot;]The majority of Roman coins were produced on what is termed &#039;al marco&#039; standards.&nbsp; That means that a certain number were made from a certain weight of metal.&nbsp; It was a lot less important to them that every coin was exactly the same weight as every other coin.&nbsp; Obviously that was the goal but I&#039;m sure some workers were more skilled at pouring blanks accurately than were others.&nbsp; There are also antoniniani overstruck on earlier coins (usually Severan denarii) so it is possible that a variant coin might have started as a foreign silver and was struck to make it spendable without melting.&nbsp; There is much evidence that the mint of the period in question did not take weights as seriously as 21st century collectors would like.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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