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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 4533107, member: 110226"]That's very interesting. I wonder how this weight was used in relationship to the stater, especially in Athens, where most of the coinage was in tetradrachms, drachms and obols.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see a weight with a turtle on top. Was that a weight for the staters of Aegina?</p><p><br /></p><p>Another coin, the shekel, had its origins in Mesopotamia, Babylon, as a weight. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here's my Old Period Babylon frog weight, who I named Enki, after the Sumarian water god, that equals roughly 1.5 shekels:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Old Babylonian Old Babylonian Green Stone Frog Weight</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Old Babylonian Period, ca. first half of the 2nd Millennium BC. The frog is superbly sculpted in a green mottled stone (dentridic agate) with white inclusions.</p><p><br /></p><p>American Private Collection, acquired 1981. L. 2 7/8" H. 1 5/8" (7.3 cm x 4 cm)..</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1122674[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 4533107, member: 110226"]That's very interesting. I wonder how this weight was used in relationship to the stater, especially in Athens, where most of the coinage was in tetradrachms, drachms and obols. I see a weight with a turtle on top. Was that a weight for the staters of Aegina? Another coin, the shekel, had its origins in Mesopotamia, Babylon, as a weight. Here's my Old Period Babylon frog weight, who I named Enki, after the Sumarian water god, that equals roughly 1.5 shekels: [B]Old Babylonian Old Babylonian Green Stone Frog Weight[/B] Old Babylonian Period, ca. first half of the 2nd Millennium BC. The frog is superbly sculpted in a green mottled stone (dentridic agate) with white inclusions. American Private Collection, acquired 1981. L. 2 7/8" H. 1 5/8" (7.3 cm x 4 cm).. [ATTACH=full]1122674[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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