Hi,
It surely must have been. I was recently sent this coin and, frankly, I've never seen one of this
type so bad. The
denarii of
Aurelian usually have some care taken with them and are on roundish flans with more or less a
full circle strike. This one looks like it was struck on the last scrap of metal in the place. The
style is correct and there are remnants of the letter in the
exergue that make be think it
comes from
officina B. The
weight, 1.9 grammes is in the range for these, if slightly below the peak noted by
King (1978, in the
Sutherland festschrift). Finally the
die axis of 250 degrees is a little odd. From my limited survey of the
type they generally are angled around 0 degrees or
180 degrees.
Thought I'd post it here to see if any others
had seen a bad
denarius of
Aurelian.
Regards,
Mauseus