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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1920348, member: 39"]Apparently they did have ways of checking the purity. In <a href="http://www.academia.edu/362347/H._Gitler_A_Hacksilber_and_Cut_Athenian_Tetradrachm_Hoard_from_the_Environs_of_Samaria_Late_Fourth_Century_BCE_Israel_Numismatic_Research_1_2006_pp._5-14" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.academia.edu/362347/H._Gitler_A_Hacksilber_and_Cut_Athenian_Tetradrachm_Hoard_from_the_Environs_of_Samaria_Late_Fourth_Century_BCE_Israel_Numismatic_Research_1_2006_pp._5-14" rel="nofollow">this text</a> for example, the author talks about silver hoards which "contained linen-wrapped bundles of Hacksilber that had been weighed according to standards and checked for purity before being sealed with bullae." And a little later: "The Phoenicians were thus aware of the essential practices involved in coining metal, namely using a device to indicate weight and purity verification of metal pieces" ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Or look <a href="http://ansmagazine.com/Spring03/Uncoined" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ansmagazine.com/Spring03/Uncoined" rel="nofollow">here</a>: "When the Persians gained control of the Near East, Asia Minor and Egypt in the mid-6th c. BC, they also inherited from their Assyrian and Babylonian predecessors a concern for systematic quality control over gold and silver purity". So it was possible, I just don't know how they did it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1920348, member: 39"]Apparently they did have ways of checking the purity. In [URL='http://www.academia.edu/362347/H._Gitler_A_Hacksilber_and_Cut_Athenian_Tetradrachm_Hoard_from_the_Environs_of_Samaria_Late_Fourth_Century_BCE_Israel_Numismatic_Research_1_2006_pp._5-14']this text[/URL] for example, the author talks about silver hoards which "contained linen-wrapped bundles of Hacksilber that had been weighed according to standards and checked for purity before being sealed with bullae." And a little later: "The Phoenicians were thus aware of the essential practices involved in coining metal, namely using a device to indicate weight and purity verification of metal pieces" ... Or look [URL='http://ansmagazine.com/Spring03/Uncoined']here[/URL]: "When the Persians gained control of the Near East, Asia Minor and Egypt in the mid-6th c. BC, they also inherited from their Assyrian and Babylonian predecessors a concern for systematic quality control over gold and silver purity". So it was possible, I just don't know how they did it. :) Christian[/QUOTE]
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