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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1579974, member: 19463&quot;]The point being missed here is that you asked for information on Ancient Greek coins like there was a country called Ancient Greece.&nbsp;&nbsp; What we know as ancient Greece was a group of several hundred authorities, cities, empires, leagues and even a few mercenary groups without a geographic base.&nbsp; Each did things &#039;their way&#039;.&nbsp; Many used the drachm/tetradrachm system but others didn&#039;t.&nbsp; Add to that the fact that ancient Greece issued coins 500 years before they mostly became Roman provinces and most changed their systems somewhere along the way.&nbsp; This makes it a little more complex than just asking how many half dismes you get for a Euro.&nbsp; Add to that the other ugly fact of ancient coins: We don&#039;t know.&nbsp; We have coins from cities that we do not know where were located let alone what they called their coins or how they related to each other.&nbsp; Numismatists propose theories and sometimes disagree with little questions like whether this is a 1/5 or a 1/4.&nbsp; In many cases you will see a denomination listed as AE23, for example, which just means the coin is a copper alloy (bronze, brass or anything similar) and 23mm in diameter.&nbsp; There may be another coin listed as AE24 which means another example of the same coin as the first but just hammered harder or an AE22x24 which means a coin more oval than round (not necessarily on purpose - sometimes we just hammer a bit on the crooked side).&nbsp; The answers given by others above are pretty good as long as you realize that a complete answer would be a book of no small size.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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