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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kavax, post: 7499207, member: 107774&quot;]Your question is not trivial.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dionysios of Syracuse, at the end of the Vth century BC, reshaped the monetary system :</p><p><br /></p><p>He has stopped minting all the silver denominations except the dekadrachms (the famous Kimon and Euainetos coins) and the removal of small silver denominations was filled with bronze coins including the notorious δραχμαι καττιτέρου (drachms in tin)</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, 10 drachms like this one :&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296069[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>was not worth 1 dekadrachm (10 drachms) like this one :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296072[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;the two coinage simply not circulated in the same economic sphere.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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