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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 26664393, member: 26302&quot;]I thought it was the octobol sir. The drachms of Ptolemy III were usually 70ish grams, and octobols 90+.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Ptolemies as far as I have read had a gold mine the pharoahs used and copper mines, but silver was scarcer in their country, which is why they came up with the idea of very heavy copper as replacements for smaller silver coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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