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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 4453458, member: 87809&quot;][USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] wrote in the Tiny Ptolemaic AEs thread that &quot;If 2.0g gives you the unit chalkous, 2.9g would be a tri-hemi-chalkon not a trichalkon.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Got an AE of Augustus (shown in this thread-&gt; The Roman Empire Begins) and somewhere, unfortunately I can&#039;t remember where, issues of this type were called Trichalkon.</p><p><br /></p><p>After reading dougsmit&#039;s observation, I started looking for definitions of trichalkon and found &quot;The trichalkon was an ancient Greek bronze denomination worth 3 chalkoi. Since the number of chalkons to an obol varied across regions a general weight is impossible to define, except that it weighed three chalkoi from the region where it was struck.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Is the AE of Augustus, weight = 7.370 g a Trichalkon, something else or should I just call it AE 16? </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks in advance for any clarification, they are always most welcome <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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