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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2137347, member: 26302"]Nice Type II Doug. Bill Daehn in his paper, (unfortunately for some reason its not on our website, I will try to correct that), goes over all 4 Types. He believes Type I was issued during Darius' handling of uprisings around Lydia after they took them over. Later, when they had time to properly construct a coinage, they struck the Type II's to pay for Greek mercenaries and also introduce a gold coinage system. So basically the Type I was an "emergency" coin to pay to suppress revolts and struck on the previous weight standards. Later, when they developed their own standards and conversion system between gold and silver, did Type II's get struck. Also, no gold Type I's were struck, but were struck for Type II-IV. You are also right the Type II is scarcer than III and IV. Type I's are usually listed as rare, but since there are at least 123 known now, I am not sure if that is really a "rare" ancient. What do you guys think? Is 123 for an ancient coin "rare" or simply "scarce"?[/QUOTE]