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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4014865, member: 19463&quot;]Isn&#039;t that modern Greek?&nbsp; My professor in college hated the way the moderns made an iota out of anything. He disliked New Testament and later Roman era Greek grammar as well being quite a fan of the 5th century.&nbsp; Of course there is always the fact that there were many dialects over many centuries so we can not expect every pronunciation to match.&nbsp; We don&#039;t match today in English so we should not expect all the Greeks to either.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The usual version with the lizard tends to weigh 0.7g and is called a trihemiobol so I might suspect that this is half of that which would be 3/4 obol or tritartemorion? </p><p>0.7g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1055785[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>That was one of Steve&#039;s more appealing coins but I was too cheap to buy it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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