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Pillar of the Community
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Hezel dip your toe in the sea of ancients its great.
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Edited by stevex6
08/07/2012 11:13 pm
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Edited by stevex6
08/07/2012 11:38 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thats nuts a converter!! have I guess it ended up being 1 tetradrachm = 4 drachms= 3.53 Biblical denari
thats really cool.
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Sap -thats true for Egypt Billon tets but mine is from Antioch in Syria? Made of fine silver.  Next time I'll pay more attention to the question before answering it.  As I understand it, the Syrian and Cappadocian drachms were more or less at par with the Imperial denarius, making a tetradrachm equal to a 4-denarii coin (compared with the "cistophoric" tetradrachm of Pergamum, tariffed at 3 denarii). But here again, the actual exchange rate you received would have depended on the particular moneychanger you met. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Bedrock of the Community
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Sap: thanks for the background info. I have learned a bit more.
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Pillar of the Community
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Wow!! Thanks Sap those were both great answers. Any recommended reading?
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Pillar of the Community
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There are not that many double dated coins like this so I always liked this type. Mine is one year older than yours (7/109).  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Really nice example Doug. I see yours has far more legend. Great addition. When I first got it I thought it was rarer then it is, but at the end of the day I think its one of my favorites.
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Pillar of the Community
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It is a good coin to be a favorite. The style is pleasing. It is struck from good metal. It is large and impressive. They are not rare but probably played an important role in the economy of their day and time. What is not to like?
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Pillar of the Community
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To me it kind of looks like a big, fat, ancient US quarter. I like the eagle spread-looks very....American.
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Any recommended reading? I've recommended it before, but quite some time ago: "Coinage in the Roman World" by Andrew Burnett. I have the 1987 edition. It's a fairly small book but it's got all sorts of information about how and where coinage was actually used in Roman times. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
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SAP- Thanks man I appreciate it. I'm gonna check it out.
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Pillar of the Community
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Great coin!  Cool post!  |
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