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The three most important standards of the ancient Greek monetary system were the Attic standard, based on the Athenian drachma of 4.3 grams (2.8 pennyweights) of silver, the Corinthian standard based on the stater of 8.6 g (5.5 dwt) of silver, that was subdivided into three silver drachmas of 2.9 g (1.9 dwt), and the Aeginetan stater or didrachm of 12.2 g (7.8 dwt), based on a drachma of 6.1 g ...
In ancient Greece, it was generally reckoned as 1 ⁄ 6 drachma (c. 0.72 grams or 11 grains). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Under Roman rule, it was defined as 1 ⁄ 48 Roman ounce or about 0.57 g (9 gr). [ 16 ] The apothecaries' system also reckoned the obol or obolus as 1 ⁄ 48 ounce or 1 ⁄ 2 scruple .
The bull and wheel types share the quadripartite incuse square characteristic of other wappenmünzen, but the owl type features a controversially interpreted reverse design (possibly an alpha, delta, or alpha-tau monogram) not characteristic of any other archaic Greek coinage. The electrum owl coins, of which eight specimens are known, have ...
The ancient drachma originated in Greece around the 6th century BC. [1] The coin, usually made of silver or sometimes gold [2] had its origins in a bartering system that referred to a drachma as a handful of wooden spits or arrows. [3] The drachma was unique to each city state that minted them, and were sometimes circulated all over the ...
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (SNG) is a project to publish ancient Greek coinage, founded in Great Britain by the British Academy in 1930. It was originally intended to catalogue both public and private Greek coin collections in the UK. It has gradually spread to other countries, and has now published more than 120 volumes.
The denomination values and common imagery on silver coinage was as follows, with the denomination based on the Obol and image most common on the coin: [2] 1 Obol: Anchor and Bow and Quiver. 2 Diobol: Bow and Quiver; 3 Hemidrachm: 6 Drachm: Anchor; 24 Tetradrachm: Elephant walking; Coins with the head of Zeus on the reverse and Athena in ...
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A notable discovery in Georgia was a silver coin of Amissos from the 4th century BC, featuring on the obverse the profile of a woman—either Hera or the nymph Amissos—and on the reverse, a spread-winged eagle with the Greek inscription 'ΠΕΙΡΑ' (meaning 'trial' or 'attempt'), which refers to the city of Amissos, and dates the coin from ...