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<p>[QUOTE="The Meat man, post: 24722562, member: 135271"]According to Kenneth Harl in his book <i>Coinage in the Roman Economy</i>, the Syrian tetradrachm was 35-36% silver at the start of Gordian III's reign and dropped to around 25% by the year 240.*</p><p><br /></p><p>At an average coin weight of 12.5 grams, this means the actual silver weight would have started around 4.4 grams and then dropped to just over 3 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>*p. 137, table 6.3[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Meat man, post: 24722562, member: 135271"]According to Kenneth Harl in his book [I]Coinage in the Roman Economy[/I], the Syrian tetradrachm was 35-36% silver at the start of Gordian III's reign and dropped to around 25% by the year 240.* At an average coin weight of 12.5 grams, this means the actual silver weight would have started around 4.4 grams and then dropped to just over 3 grams. *p. 137, table 6.3[/QUOTE]
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