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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewStyleKing, post: 4598756, member: 106483&quot;]When I referred to light coinage I and Thompson meant that the mintage volume was small for that issue! This is based on the number of obverse dies. Dionysus,Thyrsus and Cup has only 7 obverse dies, whilst Caps of Pilloi c 96 BC has 47, Thompson #1 has 3 obverses only but I have found 8 reverses to the 3rd obverse alone whilst the first and second obverses are only known from one reverse each!</p><p>Whilst Dolphin &amp; Trident has 45 obverses,&nbsp; Roma 14, and Roma &amp; Nike 7 Griffin 12 and Star &amp; 2 Crescents 3.</p><p><br /></p><p>I get the impression they only minted when there was need for silver payments and a small token number to satisfy the &quot;mint&quot; magistrates who might have sponsored the coinage for prestige purposes when not.. Lots of New Styles ended up in Thrace as proxy Roman coinage for Thracian mercenaries and it was a recognised coinage in Syria</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No the weight , weight is perfectly fine. Once the Attic tetradrachm was a 17.30 grams technically and you will find Early Alexanders and Phillips and Lysimachi and Antigonus Gonatas and Doson of around 17gm. Then they came down to your weight which is a &quot;perfect&quot; New Style weight most of mine are around this weight. Probably due to silver shortage and too many wars and mercenaries to pay. This is the new reduced attic weight.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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