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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 4541559, member: 44316"]Volume 1 is the texts and their translations. You need volume 2 as well to get the commentary. Both are only about Latin or Greek texts that refer to Greek coinage (not Roman coinage). It took me a while to find the original quote, #505 on page 343 (the index is not thorough). From volume II:</p><p><br /></p><p>"The text will be of interest to interpreters of dreams and to students of sibling relationships. The stater may have been a gold stater, or less probably, a silver tetradrachm (but in that case, this would be the only example of the use of this word to describe a silver coin in Egypt). The value of a gold stater would be very much greater than the value of 100 <i>chalkoi</i>. It is possible that we have evidence here for the practice, which was certainly followed in later times, of making up a purse or <i>follis</i> with a standard number of coins in it."</p><p><br /></p><p>Many comments in volume II are more interesting than this one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 4541559, member: 44316"]Volume 1 is the texts and their translations. You need volume 2 as well to get the commentary. Both are only about Latin or Greek texts that refer to Greek coinage (not Roman coinage). It took me a while to find the original quote, #505 on page 343 (the index is not thorough). From volume II: "The text will be of interest to interpreters of dreams and to students of sibling relationships. The stater may have been a gold stater, or less probably, a silver tetradrachm (but in that case, this would be the only example of the use of this word to describe a silver coin in Egypt). The value of a gold stater would be very much greater than the value of 100 [I]chalkoi[/I]. It is possible that we have evidence here for the practice, which was certainly followed in later times, of making up a purse or [I]follis[/I] with a standard number of coins in it." Many comments in volume II are more interesting than this one.[/QUOTE]
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