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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 7496250, member: 96635&quot;]I have answered you already regarding this, yes gold is worth more than silver, just like in 2021. There was a particular gold-to-silver ratio.</p><p><br /></p><p>The seller would specify what metal?</p><p>We are talking here about <u>intrinsic</u> value, not nominal value.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same when using drachms of another weight standard:</p><p>If a foreign coinage was not accepted at its nominal face-value, it could always simply be exchanged at its bullion weight. A list of donations to the sanctuary of Apollo at Didyma near Miletus, dating to 177/6 BC, includes a silver bowl described as weighing &#039;100 Rhodian drachms, or 62 drachms of Alexander&#039; (SW 29, 1091). The bowl must have weighed around 270 g, the equivalent of 100 Rhodian drachms at c. 2.70 g or 62 Attic-weight &#039;drachms of Alexander&#039; at c. 4.36 g. Hellenistic money-changers (trapezitai) must have been very used to making this kind of ad hoc conversion between the bullion values of dozens of different local civic currencies (Chandezon 2000).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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