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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8309270, member: 115909&quot;]Most of them are made of copper or silver. All the ones I posted are pretty high purity silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the NGC slab:</p><p>AV = Gold (from the Latin “aurum”)</p><p>EL = Electrum</p><p>AR = Silver (from the Latin “argentum”)</p><p>BI = Billion (heavily debased silver)</p><p><br /></p><p>&amp; there are a couple others they used.</p><p><br /></p><p>So like mine says “AR Denarius” it means it’s silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>They do make gold coins like the aureus but they are like REALLY expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>For comparison coincidentally the ancient Roman gold aureus contains the same amount of gold as the American $5 gold Half Eagles that we used during our Gold Standard days.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1470791[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>1 gold aureus = 25 silver denarius </p><p>1 silver denarius = 16 bronze asses</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The aureus was also always struck of a very high purity (98% or more) gold even when the denarius was being debased into oblivion.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the Aureus was debased it usually had its weight reduced but the gold always stayed at a very high purity.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1470788[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1470787[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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