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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1934 Wreath Crown, post: 3764157, member: 76965&quot;]HELP I need a basic lesson in ancient coins....PLEASE.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was looking at Drachms, tetradrachms, staters, Octodrachms etc. Alexander III, Philip II etc. struck staters in Gold and drachms/tets in silver. The Egyptian Ptolemaic kingdom struck Octodrachms (mnaieion or worth 100 silver drachms) and Pentadrachms (trichryson) it appears only in gold, but there are Tetradrachms in both gold (also called a half mnaieion) and silver and they weigh almost the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>How is that possible? Surely gold coins must have been worth many multiples, 10 or 15 times, even in those days, of silver coins weighing the same. Is it just a simple case of the sellers being lazy and writing Pentadrachm instead of Pentecontadrachm (50 drachms) or coining (pun intended) modern names for these coins so that they are recognizable? </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m even more confused than after an episode of SOAP, for those of you who are old enough <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Can someone please write me An Idiot&#039;s Guide to Ancient Coin and Metal Values!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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