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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7311738, member: 110350"]I have no Alexandrian drachms to post, only tetradrachms. I do find it strange that in Roman Alexandria, the drachm was larger than the tetradrachm worth 4 times as much, even though for most of the period when both were manufactured, both were (or appeared to be) made entirely of bronze. A very different situation from elsewhere, where it was typical for a smaller silver coin to be worth more than a larger bronze coin. One would think that a larger bronze coin being worth more than a smaller bronze coin (even though the smaller coin was technically billon) would have caused some cognitive dissonance. Apparently not, though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7311738, member: 110350"]I have no Alexandrian drachms to post, only tetradrachms. I do find it strange that in Roman Alexandria, the drachm was larger than the tetradrachm worth 4 times as much, even though for most of the period when both were manufactured, both were (or appeared to be) made entirely of bronze. A very different situation from elsewhere, where it was typical for a smaller silver coin to be worth more than a larger bronze coin. One would think that a larger bronze coin being worth more than a smaller bronze coin (even though the smaller coin was technically billon) would have caused some cognitive dissonance. Apparently not, though.[/QUOTE]
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