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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8329159, member: 118780&quot;]This does puzzle me. I can see people of that era questioning a bronze drachm, since those were overwhelmingly produced elsewhere in silver, but why did they make even obols and their variants so large? These were replaced with far more manageable copper coins elsewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>My understanding is Egypt had no (or few) natural sources of silver, so I assume that&#039;s why they limited their use to the tets - and even those as I understand were produced from other tets and rarely from raw silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, it&#039;s odd to me that they seemed to try to replicate the value of copper in the weight of the coin, vs just dictating it as you mention. That being said, I would have loved to see a copper tet. A gold stater equivalent could have killed someone...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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