Talk:Ancient Greek coinage/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Collaboration

I think this article is easily in contention for GA. With just a quick glance, inline refs seem to be the biggest factor. Alittle wikification, pic realignment and expansion of the minting and market of these coins, and we'll be good to go. Jo e I 20:39, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Conversion Issue

This source says 6 obols to the drachma.
~ender 2007-03-09 19:06:PM MST

Hi!!!:) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.103.208.129 (talk) 00:18, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Failure Rate

"This is a fairly crude technique and produces a high failure rate, so the high technical standards achieved by the best Greek coins - perfect centering of the image on the disk, even relief all over the coin, sharpness of edges - is a remarkable testament to Greek perfectionism."

Crude? I hand strike my own replica coins, and I get over 99% success rate using this technique. Sure, they don't turn out like industrially produced modern coinage, but "high failure rate" is a gross exaggeration.

The last comment was unsigned. Please remember to sign comments. I just edited the entire article and I removed this passage because I also believe it to be false. First, there is no high failure rate. Second, very few coins exhibit perfect centering and even relief. Sharp edges are a characteristic of counterfeit coins struck in a collar (not invented until modern times). I think that it is a false statment. That's not to say that the Greeks weren't perfectionists or didn't have high standards - in most cases, they did - but the justification given here is just not true. --75.3.200.22 (talk) 00:39, 17 July 2011 (UTC)