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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4553544, member: 19463&quot;]I have not noticed this but I might have read different books along the way.&nbsp; Many words we use for coins translate to mean little more than &quot;coin&quot;.&nbsp; Litra bothers me in particular since we seem to prefer to use obol for coins that size wherever they were made.&nbsp; Were the large silver coins of ancient Syracuse thought of as tetradrachms by the people who used them or were they 20 litra pieces in their minds?&nbsp; We do not know many things and collectors hate to say they don&#039;t know everything almost as much as do scholars who are paid to be smarter than the rest of us.&nbsp; The best but not very good answer for some of these things is &quot;because we always have done it that way.&quot;&nbsp; You can&#039;t change it but you can learn, understand and communicate using the lingo.&nbsp; Language is a matter of communication.&nbsp; People who spend all their time correcting the grammar of others can easily miss the point of what was being said.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I got a lot of good out of these books by Jones:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Ancient-Greek-Coins/dp/0900652810/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=dictionary+of+greek+coins&amp;qid=1591528612&amp;sr=8-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Ancient-Greek-Coins/dp/0900652810/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=dictionary+of+greek+coins&amp;qid=1591528612&amp;sr=8-2" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Ancient-Greek-Coins/dp/0900652810/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=dictionary+of+greek+coins&amp;qid=1591528612&amp;sr=8-2</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/John-M-Jones/dp/185264026X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=dictionary+of+roman+coins&amp;qid=1591528722&amp;sr=8-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/John-M-Jones/dp/185264026X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=dictionary+of+roman+coins&amp;qid=1591528722&amp;sr=8-2" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/John-M-Jones/dp/185264026X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=dictionary+of+roman+coins&amp;qid=1591528722&amp;sr=8-2</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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