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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4555021, member: 110350&quot;]I understand, but in many cases I&#039;m not sure guessing is required. There seems to be an overwhelming consensus that these coins were drachms (although I have no idea if anyone knows what people in Istros actually called them, and haven&#039;t tried to research that question).&nbsp; That&#039;s the reason I asked in the first place why you called yours a stater.&nbsp; In general, though, it seems to me that the approach of classifying only by metal and diameter, while it does avoid the need for speculation about names of denominations, can have its drawbacks too.&nbsp; If you have two Istros silver coins of this type and one is 19 mm. and the other 21 mm., that doesn&#039;t make them different kinds of coins.&nbsp; There has to be a range of the diameters within which particular coin-types fall, which I suppose is the point of the AE 1, 2, 3, and 4 system for LRBs.&nbsp; But even with that kind of system, shouldn&#039;t weight also be taken into account?&nbsp; I&#039;m sure there are cases of two coins made of the same metal where the one with the smaller diameter actually weighs substantially more,&nbsp; and was clearly a higher denomination.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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