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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus Maximus, post: 4517964, member: 73473&quot;]Very good question! I’m afraid I don’t know the answer though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Late Roman silver is the red headed stepchild of the ancient numismatic world. Most designs are “boring” when compared to earlier denarii which puts people off. That said, they show the last gasps of sophisticated portraits before the collapse of late antiquity in the 400’s.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It should be said though that late Roman silver coins are very pure, with most siliqua well above 95% silver. I’ve heard some theories that silver coins at the time were used by weight rather than individual coins. I don’t know if I believe that, but it’s certainly food for thought. I read somewhere(I can’t remeber where) that an average comitatensis received about 2 Siliqua per day, so that should give us an idea about how much these coins were worth.</p><p>Here was my latest Siliqua purchase :</p><p><br /></p><p>Magnus Maximus</p><p>AR Siliqua</p><p>383-388 CE</p><p><br /></p><p>1.96 grams</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1119283[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1119284[/ATTACH]</p><p>I have 3 coins with the same obverse die match. See</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/magnus-maximus-siliqua-3-0.352421/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/magnus-maximus-siliqua-3-0.352421/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/magnus-maximus-siliqua-3-0.352421/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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