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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1789758, member: 19463&quot;]Many of the name coin dealers throw around would surprise the guys that issued them.&nbsp; Athens had a system including the name hemitartemorion for 1/8 obol but many small coins were not fractions of an obol or 1/8 anything but we tend to force Greek coins into a familiar system.&nbsp; Even cities that used the names did not always agree on the exact weight of the base unit so there will be variations in weight before we even get to the fact that making an accurate batch of .1g blanks would be hard with any technology.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We see both hemitetartemorion and hemitatemorion.&nbsp; Sear uses the latter but the former makes more sense to me as half of the quarter.&nbsp; I am not sure how to research this and who I would believe.&nbsp; The Greeks might have dropped a syllable out of desires for euphony and I put a lot of weight on Sear having used the short version so it is my current preference.&nbsp; Help, anyone?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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