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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1939137, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="http://www.amuseum.org/book/page5.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amuseum.org/book/page5.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.amuseum.org/book/page5.html</a></p><p>Another view calls the smaller coins that I might call lepta &quot;half prutah&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=40325.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=40325.0" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=40325.0</a></p><p>Included in the above discussion is an interesting opinion that a thicker, rounded coin tends to be a prutah while a lepton tends to be ragged and struck on scrap metal of any shape.&nbsp; I know this does not hold for all cases but it is in keeping with my observation that there was some attempt made on larger coins to cast flans in a coin shape while the small ones were lozenge shaped or just ragged.&nbsp; This does not explain my square prutah but there will always be exceptions.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not own a Jewish coin under 1.5g which I might consider the threshhold of being a lepton.&nbsp; I also find it strange that in David Hendin&#039;s many lots for sale on eBay as of today, only one uses the word lepton and it describes a group as containing both prutah and lepton size coins.&nbsp; I would be curious to see proof that all the coins were not intended to be one size and the small ones were unofficial rather like we later see with Barbarous Radiates.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Hendin does say at one point in a description: &quot;<b><i>and it has been proven that they continued to circulate for up to 300-400 years after they were struck.</i> &quot; </b>I have to wonder when some of the crude ones were struck.&nbsp; Were all made during the time of the design they bear?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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