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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7605978, member: 19463&quot;]You can not apply what seems &#039;right&#039; to 21st century &#039;you&#039;.&nbsp; If you are going to collect these things, you need to throw out your idea of money and see it as it appeared to the people&nbsp; &#039;then&#039;.&nbsp; If you find the silver sestertii&nbsp; &#039;illogical&#039; you are going to love the silver fractions in use by the Greeks 300 years earlier.&nbsp; This is a silver of Phocaea, Ionia from the late 6th century BC (give or take a few years).&nbsp; It weighs 0.1g and is not the smallest coin in my collection. (I show it here because I have the image on a US cent.)&nbsp; Logic is not always all that &#039;logical&#039;.&nbsp; The Athenian Poet Aristophanes made fun of a man who was startled and swallowed his money.&nbsp; I doubt you have even considered going into a shop and spitting out payment into the hand of the clerk.&nbsp; Things have changed since I worked for $1 an hour.&nbsp; In the time since these coins were new?????</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/0phocentcomb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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