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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AussieCollector, post: 8342852, member: 81093&quot;]By the way [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], I love your second coin. It&#039;s got the works, Phalanthos on a dolphin, a trident, an owl - and it even says TARAS in big bold letters on the bottom! The die engraver wasn&#039;t holding back that day <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=104741]@Ignoramus Maximus[/USER] - re your question, I don&#039;t know about these coins specifically, but experience from my interest in the age of sail tells me that they were probably shaved or cut down. I believe these coins were supposed to be just shy of 8 grams, and yet we often see them at 6 something grams or even 5 something grams. I wonder whether it was because they aren&#039;t to the Attica standard, or perhaps they were cut down to a Carthage standard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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