Oh yes, nice coins! You don't see barbarized
Tetricus II. that often either!
Appropriately, I can add an example showing how such pieces were made.
I
still have some results and a find report from an official prospection from 2004,
where we were able to localize such a local
mint. By the way, the production
of the official "Bronze-Antoniniani" was no different proceeded.
The blanks were chipped from
cast bronzebars, that were notched and balted
before the minting process.
Regarding this
mint, the first
average weight determined was 1.49g, for a total
of 38 pieces(Blanks and Minimi) evaluated.
But of course, there were much lighter Minimi. I
still have a tiny one somewhere,
have to look for it first.
best regards
Laurentius