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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 1999765, member: 57495"]I had a quick look at a hundred or so of these Alexandrian dichalkoi, and the majority show extremely ragged and odd shaped flans. In fact, their shape really reminded me of widows mites. Maybe their method of production was closer to the Judaean prutot and leptons than the small bronze quadrantes being struck at Rome contemporarily with the dichalkoi? </p><p><br /></p><p>I also wonder if it's coincidence that quadrantes struck by Trajan at Rome seem rather more plentiful than those of other rulers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 1999765, member: 57495"]I had a quick look at a hundred or so of these Alexandrian dichalkoi, and the majority show extremely ragged and odd shaped flans. In fact, their shape really reminded me of widows mites. Maybe their method of production was closer to the Judaean prutot and leptons than the small bronze quadrantes being struck at Rome contemporarily with the dichalkoi? I also wonder if it's coincidence that quadrantes struck by Trajan at Rome seem rather more plentiful than those of other rulers.[/QUOTE]
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