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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4601739, member: 93416&quot;]Fascinating The only similar things I noticed are from Anglo Saxon graves dating to the 6th and 7th centuries. See Christopher Scull (Archaeological Journal 1990). Similar sets are apparently found in Merovingian Gaul but I have not seen details for those. Here is a poor picture of one find</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/11/04/03/026.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/11/04/03/026.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/11/04/03/026.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect yours might be similar sorts of things – but from a different area completely.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Anglo Saxon “sets” there are some coins that are altered and some that are not, and some that are marked by pellets and some that are not. Relevant is the fact that some re-used coins were clearly near 400 years old when they got buried – and most would be maybe 200 years old. Often the only reason to think a coin was being used as a weight is the fact that it was obsolete and found in a grave with a set of scales and a bunch of other miscellaneous weight objects.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trying to figure out the weight standards of the Anglo Saxon groups is a bit of a nightmare – there hardly seems to be one. It has crossed my mind that when these guys died their relatives maybe kept the honest weights and just buried the ones that it was best not to talk about too much (this is half a joke)</p><p><br /></p><p>The standards of your weights seem probably OK for a solidus but high for a dinar. Weights would only be used for precious metal coins – so probably these are for Solidi – but I suppose its also possible that they were used by apothecaries to measure drachms</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T</p><p><br /></p><p>PS - I see you weigh by the approved method&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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