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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 2898190" data-attributes="member: 10177">All my copper, silver, and (one) gold roman coins are all very close in size. Having platinum coins being so huge is very impractical. You would darn near be better off carrying the gold coins.I would have the platinum coins be the same size as the gold. Besides, it has been a couple of decades (late 70's, early 80's?) since platinum has been worth five times as much as gold anyways. So a "realistic" relation of value and size sure isn't needed. Plus it isn't as if Platinum was ever widely used as a coin in real life anyways, except for maybe special collector mintings.Any coin experts/collectors want to educate me?Edit: Besides, there are over a 100 roman gold coins per pound in real life. So if reality is something you want you need to make it a 100 coins/pound instead of 50 anyways. Plus the old roman coins are nothing close to being exact copies of one another like they are today. Rough edges, off center marks, etc... Plus the whole reason coins even have ridges is to cut down on the practice of literally shaving the coins, back when they were pure silver and gold. Pure for their purposes anyhow. That convention is no longer necessary since coins are far from pure silver, or gold.</blockquote>