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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3235248, member: 19463&quot;]Tragilos AR hemiobol 8mm 0.33g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]845731[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I was told by someone I had previously considered knowledgable that the weights of the very small denominations was all over the place and very dependent on being assigned to the larger coins of the same issue if you were going to assign them to denominations.&nbsp; The question is whether my coin is twice as heavy as yours because it was a different value or because the mint made only &#039;hemiobols&#039; in this general size any people classifying some as &#039;trihemitartemorion&#039; or &#039;tetartemorion&#039; are trying too hard.&nbsp; Certainly the answer here might be different for each city/timeperiod/authority so we need to see the supporting arguments before accepting the word of experts.&nbsp; Are grapes consistently half the weight of grain ear coins?&nbsp; I have not studied this.&nbsp; I wish I felt more comfortable labeling the coins.&nbsp; I hate to fall back to &#039;AR 8mm, 0.33g fraction&#039; but that seems safer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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