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<p>[QUOTE="Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 5440239, member: 99554"]Cool research [USER=87809]@cmezner[/USER] . Here is the French theory: </p><p>The Nimes'coins often appear under the denomination "as", which is still common among numismatists. But this is a misnomer since these pieces are actually related according to the Augustan reform (19 BC) to a dupondius, a currency equivalent to twice the value of an ace. This explains why these coins have often been cut into two equal bets, possibly into four, in order to thus create, following a lack of cash, aces or semis (half-aces). G. Depeyrot thus estimates that the presence of two portraits on a coin is equivalent at that time to the indication of a value corresponding to two aces. The alloy used for striking is not bronze (an alloy of copper and tin) but brass (copper and zinc), a more precious alloy because of the greater rarity of zinc compared to 'tin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 5440239, member: 99554"]Cool research [USER=87809]@cmezner[/USER] . Here is the French theory: The Nimes'coins often appear under the denomination "as", which is still common among numismatists. But this is a misnomer since these pieces are actually related according to the Augustan reform (19 BC) to a dupondius, a currency equivalent to twice the value of an ace. This explains why these coins have often been cut into two equal bets, possibly into four, in order to thus create, following a lack of cash, aces or semis (half-aces). G. Depeyrot thus estimates that the presence of two portraits on a coin is equivalent at that time to the indication of a value corresponding to two aces. The alloy used for striking is not bronze (an alloy of copper and tin) but brass (copper and zinc), a more precious alloy because of the greater rarity of zinc compared to 'tin.[/QUOTE]
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