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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1335708, member: 19463&quot;]Different mints played by different rules.&nbsp; It is not unusual to find a 5mm coin that weighs more than another 10mm coin.&nbsp; What is amazing is how consistent the weights are within one type.&nbsp; Obols and Litra tend to weigh .6g -.7g but there&nbsp; were many towns on many other standards so you have to know what you have before you can tell what it should weigh.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My want list includes an Athenian hemitartemorion (1/8th obol - under .1g) but I have never seen a real one actually sold.&nbsp; I have seen a couple Eastern barbarous fractions offered as real Athenian but they were not official in style.&nbsp; There were a lot of copies of Athenian minors from the Holy Land and Arabia, I believe.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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