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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2490816, member: 19463&quot;]Those new to the concept of weight standards might enjoy this summary:</p><p><a href="http://www.seleukidtraces.info/information/daehn" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.seleukidtraces.info/information/daehn" rel="nofollow">http://www.seleukidtraces.info/information/daehn</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It includes a table which demonstrates if nothing else why collectors need not wonder why some coins are different in weight that we might have hoped.&nbsp; The article also discusses a bit of the why/how some of these things came to be the way they are.&nbsp; </p><p><b>Name of Standard</b> <b>Standard Unit</b> <b>Weight (gm)</b></p><p>Achaean stater (3 drachma) 8.0</p><p>Aeginetan stater (didrachm) 12.2</p><p>Asiatic tetradrachm 13.3</p><p>Attic tetradrachm 17.2</p><p>Campanian stater (didrachm) 7.5</p><p>Chian tetradrachm 15.6</p><p>Cistaphoric tetradrachm 12.6</p><p>Corcyrean stater (didrachm) 11.6</p><p>Corinthian stater (3 drachma) 8.6</p><p>Euboeic stater (didrachm) 17.2</p><p>Lycian stater (didrachm) 8.6 to 10</p><p>Milesian electrum stater 14.1</p><p>Persian gold daric 8.35</p><p>Persian siglos 8.35 or 8.55</p><p>Phocaic electrum stater 16.1</p><p>Phoenician shekel (didrachm) 7.0</p><p>Rhodian tetradrachm 13.2 or 15.2</p><p>Samian tetradrachm 13.1</p><p>Sicilian litra 0.86</p><p>Thraco-Macedonian various various</p><p>Adapted from Jones, Dictionary; and Kraay, ACGC. All silver unless noted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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