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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancient Aussie, post: 3003126, member: 80147&quot;]Sorry <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/nicholasz219.75641/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/nicholasz219.75641/">nicholasz219</a> you had a query on the Pentassarion to the best of my understanding, a number of places used the Greek form <i>assarion</i> for the coin they regarded as a unit.&nbsp; The unit might vary from one community to another.&nbsp; In any case, two assaria, a <i>dyassarion</i>, would be the double,&nbsp; a <i>triassarion</i> the triple, a <i>tetrassarion</i> the quadruple, four assaria, and, finally, a <i>pentassarion</i> the quintuple, five assaria.&nbsp; They are not by weight in the coinages for which we habitually use them.&nbsp; For example, at Marcianopolis, the one issue marked <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/Smileys/ancient%20alphabets/Greek_Gamma.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> and so a <i>triassarion</i>, is always lighter and smaller than the <i>tetrassaria</i> and larger than the coppers but they vary by as much as three grams among themselves.&nbsp; Further, the <i>pentassaria</i> of Marcianopolis are in many cases no heavier than the <i>tetrassaria</i>, and the <i>tetrassaria</i> of Nicopolis are routinely slightly heavier than the marked <i>pentassaria</i> of Marcianopolis.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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