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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2748418, member: 44316&quot;]This does not say the value is marked on it, does it? The head of Roma on a Republican coin (or any other type) could be a &quot;mark upon it to be of definite exchange value.&quot; In contrast, consider &quot;hacksilber&quot; which is chucks of silver cut from larger amounts (such as silver dinner plates or ingots). They have no &quot;mark&quot; to say how much they were worth. They had no particular worth. They had to be individually weighed for transactions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins, in contrast, are supposed to have some particular value (although you can wonder about barbarous radiates, or about FEL TEMP REPARATIO fallen horsemen with various sizes). I can&#039;t imagine anyone defining &quot;coin&quot; to require the value to be explicitly stated on a coin. Most Greek silver coins do not have values explicitly on them. For modern collectors, it can be hard to distinguish an obol, trihemiobol, hemiobol, and other small denominations (say, of Cycicus) without a scale. In those cases, the marks do not distinguish the values. I have always wondered why Cyzicus did not do anything to make the types on obols and hemiobols distinguishable.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]628920[/ATTACH]</p><p>0.40 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]628919[/ATTACH]</p><p>0.82 grams.&nbsp; (The two photos are to scale.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The former is half the value of the latter, but you would not know it from the types.</p><p>The former is a hemiobol, the latter an obol.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, the marks do not seem to determine a definite exchange value. They do make the coin official, which means (I think) it <b>has</b> a definite exchange value, but what that value is need to be figured out by the users.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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