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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 2970236, member: 57463"]Thanks!  I took a screenshot for my \Teos folder under  \Numismatics. Again, more humor. I read DougSmit's post on his coin and added that as soon as I got home from the show. See, they weigh the coin, then try to figure out the weight standard that it fits into Aegina stater, Light Babylonian Shekel, ... whatever... What that leaves out is WHY such a coin would be struck.  That's an odd fraction, just being a fraction: why a 3/2 Obol (1.5 Obols) and not just 1 or 2? Often, towns did that to fit with their neighbors: three of mine make two of yours.  But is there any evidence of this? Is it on the Ephesian Standard? (Nearest important neighbor). Here's a thought: We know from records that the minter was given a quantity of silver and told issue so many coins from it. He had to make that work out right. Another thing - and something that bothers me about this coin; I almost sent it back as fake - is that no other Teos coin has the ethnic and moneyer on the Obverse. But, I did find several other very different with the name of the magistrate Alypios. Maybe he was re-elected a couple of times or more and sought to differentiate one issue from another as a control for audit. Maybe...  Or maybe someone just had these made and funneled them into the numismatic markets like those famously fake Odessa Obols from 2000 that Heritage ended up eating. Just sayin'...  There's a lot we don't know.[/QUOTE]