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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4537565, member: 93416&quot;]I agree - really interesting.&nbsp; My general understanding is that hacksilver is random weight.&nbsp; I got that mainly from Mark Blackburn, who looked at all the hacksilver from the Viking Torksey site and was adamant the pieces were just random weights.&nbsp; And I never saw that contradicted in big studies of the pre-coinage ANE stuff either.</p><p><br /></p><p>However - Kletter published a lot of small Judean weights and his 3 gerah all lie between 1.6g and 2g.&nbsp; So it does look like this was probably (exceptionally) an attempt to chop exactly 2 gerah of silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it really does come close to being a pre-coinage &quot;coin&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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