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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3155090, member: 44316"]Many scholars, including the late Philip Grierson (a Byzantine expert), have asserted that gold was <b>always</b> weighed in transactions. When a coin is supposed to be 4.45 grams, a piece under 3 grams surely would be noticed and the person who attempted to pass it severely dealt with. A single gold coin was more than a month's pay for a legionary, so its modern-day equivalent must be over $1000. Worth paying attention to, don't you think? Many current-day local convenience stores won't accept $100 bills because they might be fake. Who would accept a $1000 coin that is clearly too light? Gold coins were too valuable to use in daily commerce. People involved in big transactions that needed gold coins were surely careful enough to spot a coin that far from genuine. We are collectors and know such a coin is worth under $1000 and we pay enough attention to notice it is too light. Ancients would have too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I very much doubt it is ancient and contemporary with the type it imitates.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3155090, member: 44316"]Many scholars, including the late Philip Grierson (a Byzantine expert), have asserted that gold was [B]always[/B] weighed in transactions. When a coin is supposed to be 4.45 grams, a piece under 3 grams surely would be noticed and the person who attempted to pass it severely dealt with. A single gold coin was more than a month's pay for a legionary, so its modern-day equivalent must be over $1000. Worth paying attention to, don't you think? Many current-day local convenience stores won't accept $100 bills because they might be fake. Who would accept a $1000 coin that is clearly too light? Gold coins were too valuable to use in daily commerce. People involved in big transactions that needed gold coins were surely careful enough to spot a coin that far from genuine. We are collectors and know such a coin is worth under $1000 and we pay enough attention to notice it is too light. Ancients would have too. I very much doubt it is ancient and contemporary with the type it imitates.[/QUOTE]
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