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Message:: [QUOTE="romismatist, post: 26331576, member: 44106"]It's my understanding that weight (ponderal) standards were different across Greece and the Magna Grecia as each Greek polis originally developed independently with its own coinage and weight standards. With the growth in trade, popularly accepted coins such as the Attic standard (which circulated not just in Athens but across Greece, the Levant and Egypt), and the Corinthian standard (which was also used in Sicily and Southern Italy) sometimes influenced ponderal standards in the regions they circulated in. In several city-states like Taras/Tarentum in Calabria, which has a long history of minting coins, ponderal standards also varied over time due to economic and military events (ie having to pay for condottieri and mercenaries to protect the city-state led to several devaluations and subsequent changes to ponderal standards). I'm still not entirely sure what the difference between nomoi and staters are but both were minted at Taras. Alberto D'Andrea did an excellent job methodically detailing the changes in ponderal standards of the coinage of Taras within his recent three-volume work. Some of this coinage is on the Eperiote ponderal standard when Alexander the Molossian supported the Tarentines in their regional struggles for power.[/QUOTE]