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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 4535509, member: 93416"]Thanks. The best guess is that Athenian market weight was spread round the Mediterranean by Phoenicians, and derives from a standard that arose in the Levant as early as 2,500 BC. So we might guess that a stater weight (of a little under a kilo) came first, applied to goods in common including copper. A silver coin might get its name from being worth a stater weight of copper. This fits somewhat with silver : copper in the 1:100 ballpark. But I stress that is just a guess.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 4535509, member: 93416"]Thanks. The best guess is that Athenian market weight was spread round the Mediterranean by Phoenicians, and derives from a standard that arose in the Levant as early as 2,500 BC. So we might guess that a stater weight (of a little under a kilo) came first, applied to goods in common including copper. A silver coin might get its name from being worth a stater weight of copper. This fits somewhat with silver : copper in the 1:100 ballpark. But I stress that is just a guess. Rob T[/QUOTE]
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