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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2725218, member: 19463&quot;]They come in a range of sizes but the large and popular drachms are more common.&nbsp; The good thing is more and more dealers are realizing that there is a market for small coins.&nbsp; Not all that long ago many only would sell tetradrachms and considered drachms &#039;small silver&#039;. </p><p>0.3g </p><p>[ATTACH=full]618395[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>0.8g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]618396[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I am less than certain how accurate it is to force Athenian names on the coins but it does seem that our coin is roughly the same weight as my two combined so we can be forgiven calling them hemiobol, obol and trihemiobol.&nbsp; The drachms (no more accurate a name IMO but what we call them) tend to weigh a bit over 5g and 6x my 0.8g &#039;obol&#039; is a bit under what we might expect.&nbsp; What I&#039;m saying here is I have not studied this in depth and I do not know if anyone has.&nbsp; There is a big difference between numismatic scholarship and copying down names from a coin catalog.&nbsp; Perhaps if weighed a thousand of them and looked hard at the results, we might see a pattern but proving how their system worked and what names they applied to the coins will be harder. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the record: they come in fourree and barbarous, too.&nbsp; Nothing seems easy.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]618405[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]618406[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I do love this type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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