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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4590496, member: 110350&quot;]In theory, of course, mine would have been valued at 4x yours -- a diobol vs. a hemiobol.&nbsp; So the greater weight doesn&#039;t surprise me; after all, there had to be some way for people to distinguish the denominations of their coins absent marks of value. It&#039;s the fact that they&#039;re so close in diameter that surprised me, although of course there&#039;s something of a limit to how much smaller they could reasonably have made yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of marks, is that an &quot;O&quot; above the shoulder of your boar?&nbsp; I know that some of these coins had control marks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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