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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikebell, post: 24649996, member: 118382&quot;]Having recently come back from there, I (as you do) embarked on trying to acquire an example of each of the currency metals used.&nbsp; Since this stuff is not mainstream, and quite often scarce to boot - it is not just a case of firing up Vcoins.</p><p><br /></p><p>While in theory there should have been fixed rates of exchange, due to the variability of the coin weights (usually reductions) they traded on intrinsic value.&nbsp; The ratios (which have remained largely fixed since the time of the Greeks) broadly as follows: 1g AU = 12½g AR = 750g AE.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank the gods for standardization right, since metal purity adds another variable!</p><p><br /></p><p>In any event, here are the three examples, perhaps surprisingly the AE is the rarest.</p><p><b>AV Benduqi</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1569496[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>AR Dirham</b></p><p><b>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1569497[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>AE Fals</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1569498[/ATTACH] </b></p><p>The bronze is 18thC, and only the flan was cast, unlike the later coppers.&nbsp; Pretty obvious from this example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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