Record: GAT-82E9E7 Object type: COIN Broadperiod: ROMAN Description: A Republican denarius serratus. In al marco, adjustment, a block of flans is cast a little heavy the right number of flans for the desired weight of coins is counted out (and the overall weight will, of course be, too heavy) flans that look heavy are successively picked out one by one, without too much attention to the weight and a sliver of metal is gouged off and the gouged flans are tossed back into the block, until the overall weight is reduced to the right overall weight. This new denarius, compared to the aurelianus, which was valued at two denarii as under Caracalla, returned to its weight ratio at the time of the AD 215 reform. Details for denomination: Denarius serratus (Roman Republic) Metal: Silver.

This question can be investigated by looking at the histograms of large number of denarii, in issues known to be use gouging. The frequency of the use of gouging in the Roman Republic makes it possible to study whether weight adjustment was carried out al peso (which means that each individual flan was brought within the tolerances of the weight standard for the issue), or whether it was done al marco (which means not paying too much attention to the weights of individual coins, but ensuring that a fixed number of flans were made from a fixed weight of metal). See Clive Stannard on web.me.com/clive.stannard/1/Welcome.html It appears that the designs on the assarion changed annually, hence they display great variations. 34 grams and forming the lowest denomination of contemporary Byzantine coinage, being exchanged at 1:768 to the gold hyperpyron. An example of the new silver denomination introduced in this year, probably tariffed as a double denarius but by weight one and a half denarii. Nero reduced the silver content and average weight of the denarius to 85. 395/1 Denarius model weight adjusted al marco It was a low-quality flat copper coin, weighing ca. Antonius provide a large proportion of the denarii in hoards closing under Augustus.28 The weight reductions of the aureus listed previously do not appear to. This coin is a silver denarius dating from 68 CE, toward the end of the reign.

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