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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 938095, member: 19463&quot;]IMHO collectors go to a lot of trouble forcing names on coins. Many of us learn the Athenian system and apply their names to others whether or not the people who issued the coins would approve. I have no idea of what the exchange rate would have been between one of these and an obol of an obol issuing town. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If we call a stater (kind of generic coin name for a main unit) equivalent to a didrachm and divide a drachm into 6 obols, this coin would be an obol. These weigh more than an Athenian obol but standards varied from place to place and I am no expert on them. I&#039;m not aware of staters dating to around this time but a century later they seemed to weigh about 12g which would make this OK as a twelth but that does not mean that the man on the street would have called either coin by that name. I do not know where numismatic scholars found the names they use in many cases. Those interested might enjoy the following page:</p><p><a href="http://rjohara.net/coins/history/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rjohara.net/coins/history/" rel="nofollow">http://rjohara.net/coins/history/</a></p><p>which says the coin should weight over 1.1g. This is not out of line considering the poor condition of this example. If you follow one of the links on that page you will find photos of coins as low as .89g in better stape than this one but most are closer to 1.1g. I remain amazed at how close the weights are in these little things.&nbsp; I might add that this coin was one of the larger ones in the group I bought with some under .2g that I&#039;m still trying to ID.&nbsp; You need good eyes to collect these.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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