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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1939039, member: 26302&quot;]That one is a coin issued under Roman command. They never made leptons after the Hasmonean dynasties ended, so it could not possibly be a lepton.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw Doug, yes, that was an interesting wheel and anchor. Very heavy for the issue. I have seen very rare ones listed as prutah, and my guess is due to the weight. There were such huge variations of the weight of both prutah and leptons, though, I have never really been very comfortable with that distinction. Maybe he is right, and i am just recalcitrant, but unless I see better proof than just weight, (and remember all of these bronzes were token coinages, the value of the bronze being irrelavent to its denomination), I am just leery of the argument. Actually I am seeing a huge inflation of these coins, with nearly everything nowadays being called a prutah. Problem is, the ancients knew there were two distinct denominations, and named them accordingly, but modern collectors seem to be lumping them together more and more. Maybe prutah is just cooler to say.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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