Ancient Coins

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My smallest and my largest ancient Greek coins together (feddit.dk)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yikes! Can you imagine having to cart a bunch of those across town to pay a large bill, like buying some cattle, or a horse?

Edit: would those two coins be about equivalent in value?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nah, the little one is with much less. A hemitetartemorion is worth 1/8th of an obol, so the octobol is worth 64 times as much as the small silver coin 🙂