Hogarth, David G.; Smith, Cecil Harcourt [Contr.]: Excavations at Ephesus: the archaic Artemisia: Text (London, 1908)

The Coins.

77

The silver mina of this standard (used in Lydia and Ionia for electrum
also) weighed from 11,000-11,500 grains Troy, the stater or 50th part of the
mina, 220-230 grains, and the numerous fractions of the stater in proportion,
down to its minutest subdivision less than 2\ grains, the 96th part of the stater.

The present lot of coins comprises specimens of all the denominations
from the \ stater downwards, but it contains not a single stater. Their weights,
in grains, are as follows :—

Tai3LE of Weights.

Half
Staters.

Thirds.

Sixths.

Eighth.

Twelfths.

Twenty-

Forty-
Eighths.

Ninety-









Fourths.

Sixths.

..109-3

73'6

36'4

25'4

19-0

9-8

4'2

2 • 2

110-5

72-4

36'7



20-0

8-8

4'5

2*2

1 io"4

72 -o

36-0



i8'3

- 9-0

3'6

2 -0



74'°

36-0



18-3

8-2

4-6

2 -O



73'4

35'8



18-4

8-4

4'5





73"4

36'5



18-0

9'°

4'5





73'4





18-0

9-0

4-6





73'4





18-0

9-0

4'4





72 '6





18-6

9'°

4-0





72-6





17-8

9'°

4'9





72-6





18-4

8'5

4'5





73'°





18-4

9'°

4'4





73'°





18-2

8'5

4 4





72'5





18-0

8'5

4"3





72-7





17-8
18-2

,8-5
i7'5

8-2
9-2
9'°

4'3
4'7
4'4
4'4
4'4
4-6
4-0
5'°
5'°



33°'2

1094'6

217-4

25'4

329'4

150-1

102 • 2

8-4

Total 2257-7

Average Weights of the various Denominations.

•06

72'97 36'2^

25'4

8*829 4'44

36'7

25'4

9-8

5"°

2 • 2