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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2039430, member: 19463&quot;]If a coin is 1/16 stater and a stater is 2 drachms then it is 1/8 of a drachm.&nbsp; An obol is 1/6 of a drachm so the closest equivalent would be between the obol and hemiobol.&nbsp; Cities used various weight standards and we don&#039;t have a good grasp on all the variations across the Greek world and across the centuries.&nbsp; Coin dealers do the best they can within their understanding but it might be more important to use a term the customers understand than one that would have been good to a money changer of the day.&nbsp; Most obols weigh .6-.7g.&nbsp; Porosity would make .5g acceptable.&nbsp;&nbsp; I suspect that the first owner of these coins had a name for them that was neither obol or hemi.&nbsp; Was it 1/8th or perhaps a two dotter?&nbsp; We should not get too worked up about memorizing things that were off hand conventions of coin dealers a generation or too ago.&nbsp; I&#039;ll call little Athenians obol and little Syracusans litra but I&#039;ll not claim that other towns had to follow the conventions of those cities.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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