Talk:Sestertius signum
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Salve, I have just made a minor change to the coinage page... the original Sestertius Signum coins were minted in bronze rather than brass, so I changed this in the listing. (Marcus Cassius Julianus, Senator) | Salve, I have just made a minor change to the coinage page... the original Sestertius Signum coins were minted in bronze rather than brass, so I changed this in the listing. (Marcus Cassius Julianus, Senator) | ||
| + | :Thank you, Senator. Information about the original coins is hard to come by. I had guessed brass as it is far more common than bronze. Do you know the actual composition of the coins? There is a certain confusion in naming the copper alloys. '''For our purposes I take "bronze" to mean copper alloyed primarily with tin and "brass" to mean copper alloyed primarily with zinc.''' Copper alloyed primarily with nickel would be "cupronickel", which is known sometimes as "German silver", a term that we should at all costs avoid. | ||
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I would like to link this to the Wikipedia page for Sestertius but I don't think that interwiki links are working for us. I could use an external link but the interwiki links are so much more elegant. M. Lucretius Agricola
Salve, I have just made a minor change to the coinage page... the original Sestertius Signum coins were minted in bronze rather than brass, so I changed this in the listing. (Marcus Cassius Julianus, Senator)
- Thank you, Senator. Information about the original coins is hard to come by. I had guessed brass as it is far more common than bronze. Do you know the actual composition of the coins? There is a certain confusion in naming the copper alloys. For our purposes I take "bronze" to mean copper alloyed primarily with tin and "brass" to mean copper alloyed primarily with zinc. Copper alloyed primarily with nickel would be "cupronickel", which is known sometimes as "German silver", a term that we should at all costs avoid.
