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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 7803164, member: 98035&quot;]In the early/mid 4th century BC, some of the satraps of Caria &quot;restored&quot; some of the Miletos types.</p><p><br /></p><p>Original Miletos</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340047[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Restored</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340046[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, the ones that are markedly more &quot;classical&quot; are more likely to be from Caria and the early 4th c. BC rather than Miletos and the late 6th c.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few, but mostly just pics of my favorite one, which I believe to be Carian</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340050[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, it&#039;s important to note that we have little evidence of how widespread the Attic standard was prior to the Hellenistic age. Generally, for fractions I use:</p><p>1.5 - 1.1g = Diobol</p><p>1 - 0.8 = Trihemiobol</p><p>0.7 -0.6g = Obol</p><p>0.4 - 0.3 = Hemiobol</p><p>0.15-0.2 = Tetartemorion</p><p>Anything below 0.1 is a hemitartemorion - these are quite rare and I have only handled a few out of thousands of AR fractions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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