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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3789410, member: 19463&quot;]If you want a book, read Harl:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coinage-Economy-Ancient-Society-History/dp/0801852919" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Coinage-Economy-Ancient-Society-History/dp/0801852919" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Coinage-Economy-Ancient-Society-History/dp/0801852919</a></p><p><br /></p><p>We have to realize that some questions do not have the neat answers you might want.&nbsp; The names of denominations is a subject with mixed results.&nbsp; Some we know, some have been invented by collectors/scholars because we need to call them something and do not have the truth.&nbsp; Not everything was included in what texts survived for us to read.&nbsp; We have a few names but not every scholar agrees on what coin was meant by that word.&nbsp; I am concerned that we not get into arguments between those who can prove the coin is a quarter and those who are sure it is 25 cents or two bits.&nbsp; Some names we have mean little more than &quot;coin&quot;.&nbsp; After you read Harl, you will still have questions but you should better understand why it is OK to admit that we don&#039;t have all the answers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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