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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4487362, member: 93416&quot;]Hardly anyone used Attic as an actual weight standard - and that includes Athens - which had a mina of c. 455g initially, rising eventually to about 650g</p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;Seleucid&#039;(?) system I have in mind seems perhaps to have used a drachm of about 4.25g - so theoretically 544g from 128 of them</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with Grierson concerning full Attic - c. 437g - in a system applied almost exclusively to coins (and probably bullion).&nbsp; I do not recall any series of coins that actually reached that full theoretical standard as an average, but am open to correction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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