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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientone, post: 8335408, member: 71599&quot;]Not all provincial cities used the same standards for their coins size and weight. The only city that I&#039;m aware of that names it&#039;s denomination is Chios.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477804[/ATTACH] </p><p>Dichalkon, Civic Coinage of Chios, Ionia.</p><p>Reign of Augustus - 150 AD</p><p>Obverse: XI-W-N, Sphinx left, forepaw raised.</p><p>Reverse: DIXA-LKON, amphora, dotted border.</p><p>14mm and 1.8gms</p><p>BMC Ionia 114</p><p><br /></p><p>RPC explains this better.</p><p>&quot;Most provincial coins lack marks of value. People in the ancient world — as well as modern scholars trying to reconstruct provincial denominational systems — have had to rely on the metal, size, and weight of a coin and the image it bears in order to determine its face value. Presumably this was well-known when the coin was issued, but we have avoided assigning conjectural values to the coins in the website.&quot; </p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/introduction/worth" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/introduction/worth" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/introduction/worth</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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