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<p>[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 4896787, member: 103829"][USER=76544]@Brian Bucklan[/USER], [USER=87809]@cmezner[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>These names go back to Pick in AMNG (1898). His main argument was that e.g. in Markianopolis, Odessos and other cities in Northern Thrace coins were marked with the values A, B, Γ, Δ and E. These designations were strictly based on the size (not the weight!) of the coins. Since the smallest unit was the As (Greek = Assarion), it was only natural to identify it with the A. And thus the order of the other designations was clear: B (2) = Diassarion, Γ (3) = Triassarion, Δ (4) = Tetrassarion and E (5) = Pentassarion. Cities like Nikopolis joined these value gradations, even if they did not mark the individual values with the letters (numbers). Sometimes they also did not adopt all values. For example there is no Pentassarion in Nikopolis like in Markianopolis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best regards</p><p>Jochen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 4896787, member: 103829"][USER=76544]@Brian Bucklan[/USER], [USER=87809]@cmezner[/USER]! These names go back to Pick in AMNG (1898). His main argument was that e.g. in Markianopolis, Odessos and other cities in Northern Thrace coins were marked with the values A, B, Γ, Δ and E. These designations were strictly based on the size (not the weight!) of the coins. Since the smallest unit was the As (Greek = Assarion), it was only natural to identify it with the A. And thus the order of the other designations was clear: B (2) = Diassarion, Γ (3) = Triassarion, Δ (4) = Tetrassarion and E (5) = Pentassarion. Cities like Nikopolis joined these value gradations, even if they did not mark the individual values with the letters (numbers). Sometimes they also did not adopt all values. For example there is no Pentassarion in Nikopolis like in Markianopolis. Best regards Jochen[/QUOTE]
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