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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 2390659, member: 74222&quot;]3 solidus of the same Basil the Macedonian was sold in the last pecunem auction:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]491108[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]491109[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]491110[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They are all the same. The first one looks like it has been swelled unlike the second which looks “normal”. The second has a scar on the right side of Jesus’ face. The third looks like it has been grinded so heavily on the reverse side.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I have 3 questions in which I am not entirely sure if they would be answered:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Why does the first and third solidus look like they have been swelled? Did they once look like the second solidus before they transformed? Bad struck? Different diet? Bad flan which was too warm when strucked? Was it on a house that burned and thus it melted a bit?</p><p><br /></p><p>2) The scar on Jesus on the second solidus. That was done by someone with a knife to ensure it was not a fourree? Right? I know a couple of Athen’s silver-owl-drachme-something have such thing. But this is first time I see it on a Solidus.</p><p><br /></p><p>3)Why should anyone grind the third coins so bad on reverse side?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They all are 19mm. In weight respectively: 4,09g&nbsp; 4,40g 3,75g[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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