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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 8203184, member: 72790&quot;]I believe the Spartan iron coinage was of small iron bars, but not of round coins. The story of the iron currency was recorded by Plutarch in his writing about the Laconian founding father, Lycurgus, about six hundred years before the time of Plutarch. Supposedly such bars, quite heavy, would enable Spartans to strengthen their arms in making purchases. A handful of these spits (obloi) would be a drax (drachma). A good story worthy of a Herodotus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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