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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2958479, member: 19463&quot;]There is a lot that is simply not known and much of what is &#039;known&#039; has a lot of assumption going on.&nbsp; We need to study thousands of coins to improve the scholarship but making assumptions based on a handful is easier and may be correct.&nbsp; My first one shows one dot and weighs a bit under 0.4g so may have had a second pellet when new.&nbsp; The second one is IMO older and weighs 0.2 showing no dot.&nbsp; If they made the things for over a century, it is quite possible that there were changes in standards and marking conventions.&nbsp; I see no reason to believe the original users of the coins used Athenian terms like obol and hemiobol so we should not go too far worrying about forcing labels on the coins or being upset if the ones we liked last week turn out to be old news later on.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m calling both of mine &#039;Thasos&#039; but we really do not know that other cities did not make such coins as well.&nbsp; If I am right about my second one being older (early 5th century???), the fact that the dolphin style (left with staggered lower fins?) is different does not mean the coin is or is not from Thasos.&nbsp; Between the two could have been a dozen die cutters and mint managers.&nbsp; I&#039;d love to know more about these but that does not mean I am ready to accept detailed attributions and dating unless accompanied by evidence of new scholarship.&nbsp;&nbsp; Yours is a nice coin.&nbsp; I would love to have one like it and a bucket full of similar tiny treasures. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]723699[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]723700[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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