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Message:: [QUOTE="Dafydd, post: 26263040, member: 86815"]I have to disagree on that. If we say that the standard weight of a Tetradrachm is 17.2 g the evidence above shows a coin that is significantly underweight at 15.6 g, I cannot believe that a trader of banker would  not be weighing these before even contemplating cutting them. [USER=70631]@Codera[/USER] 's coin represents a 9.3% loss compared to stated average. That's a lot of missing metal and probably the price of a goat then. A loss approaching 10% is serious money lost. You can't say that it is wear because apart from the cut, [USER=70631]@Codera[/USER] 's coin is in great shape with lots of detail. Good point [USER=135271]@The Meat man[/USER] man about hitting it with a hammer and chisel, I'm influenced by the word "cut". I can imagine that the bankers marks on some of my Republican denarii were made with a chisel or other object to determine malleability but a cut implies attempting to reveal a core as you would find in a fourree. [USER=44106]@romismatist[/USER]'s coin and [USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER] 's coins definitely looks as if they were whacked by a chisel and I can imagine someone saying it's soft so silver and low copper content but the original post coin looks different.[/QUOTE]