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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 4101463, member: 93416"]Thanks, but the matter I was questioning concerned the role of merchants in first coin use, and I did not find any thing on that matter in the paper you cite. Can you point out what you are relying upon?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well - text suggests these circulated before 326 BC - but its really not clear how much earlier these were struck. Joe Cribb at the BM wanted to push the first date post 400 BC. My guess would be more like 450 BC. Truth is we do not have more than guesses I think.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The apparently earliest (short) bent bars seem to weight c. 11.5g, thus well above Croesid/shekel at c. 10.7g – and even higher than the late Issues of Darius - if we take a double siglos as a shekel (c. 11.2g)</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a very old weight standard, often associated with the Hittites, of c. 11.8g. Perhaps in use by 2,000 BC? My own guess would be that various diverse weight standards, perhaps including the bent bar, prominent Jewish standards, and the Persian silver standard all might derive for that source. If so - the date of the coin issues is not really relevant to what is going on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 4101463, member: 93416"]Thanks, but the matter I was questioning concerned the role of merchants in first coin use, and I did not find any thing on that matter in the paper you cite. Can you point out what you are relying upon? Well - text suggests these circulated before 326 BC - but its really not clear how much earlier these were struck. Joe Cribb at the BM wanted to push the first date post 400 BC. My guess would be more like 450 BC. Truth is we do not have more than guesses I think. The apparently earliest (short) bent bars seem to weight c. 11.5g, thus well above Croesid/shekel at c. 10.7g – and even higher than the late Issues of Darius - if we take a double siglos as a shekel (c. 11.2g) There was a very old weight standard, often associated with the Hittites, of c. 11.8g. Perhaps in use by 2,000 BC? My own guess would be that various diverse weight standards, perhaps including the bent bar, prominent Jewish standards, and the Persian silver standard all might derive for that source. If so - the date of the coin issues is not really relevant to what is going on. Rob T[/QUOTE]
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