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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3748139, member: 93416&quot;]I recommend this</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/6882687/Coin_Weight_and_Historical_Metrology" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/6882687/Coin_Weight_and_Historical_Metrology" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/6882687/Coin_Weight_and_Historical_Metrology</a></p><p><br /></p><p>see pages 145 - 149</p><p><br /></p><p>to summarize (my best guesses)</p><p><br /></p><p>The Soter Megas AE is a slightly degraded Attic didrachm standard</p><p><br /></p><p>The Vima Kadphises AE is just it double, Attic Tetradrachm.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Great Kushan gold is a different standard – apparently exactly 8.0g and equating to 80 rattis.&nbsp; It seems to derive from Attic but changed to fit the Hindu system</p><p><br /></p><p>The 9.6g silver standard of the Indo-Greeks and Scyths is a 96 ratti coin. That seems to have a different source altogether, its roots in a Hindu weight system dating back to 2,600 BC or earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>I discussed most of this with Joe Cribb on the phone a few weeks back, and I do not recall he disagreed any of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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