A dictionary of Greek and Roman . and only a few of the didrachm. Speci-mens of the tetrobolus, triobolus, diobolus, three-quarter-obol, half-obol, and quarter-obol, are stillfound. For the respective values of these coins,see the Tables. The tetradrachm in later times was called stater(Phot. s. v. 2T<rn7p ; Hesych. s. v. Tkavnes Aau-piwTiKai : Matth. xxvii. 27) ; but it has beendoubted whether it bore that name in the flourish-ing times of the republic. (Hussey, Ibid. p. 49.)We know that stater, in writers of that age,usually signifies a gold coin, equal in value totwenty dra
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . and only a few of the didrachm. Speci-mens of the tetrobolus, triobolus, diobolus, three-quarter-obol, half-obol, and quarter-obol, are stillfound. For the respective values of these coins,see the Tables. The tetradrachm in later times was called stater(Phot. s. v. 2T<rn7p ; Hesych. s. v. Tkavnes Aau-piwTiKai : Matth. xxvii. 27) ; but it has beendoubted whether it bore that name in the flourish-ing times of the republic. (Hussey, Ibid. p. 49.)We know that stater, in writers of that age,usually signifies a gold coin, equal in value totwenty drachmae [Stater] ; but there appearstrong reasons for believing that the tetradrachm,even in the age of Thucydides and Xenophon, wassometimes called by this name. (Thucyd. iii. 70,with Arnolds note ; Xen. Hell. v. 2. § 22.) Theobolos, in later times, was of bronze (Lucian,Contempt 11. vol. i. p. 504, ed. Reiz) ; but in thebest times of Athens we only read of silver xaA/coDs was a copper coin, and the eighthpart of an obol. [Chalcus.]. ATHENIAN DRACHMA. BRITISH SIZE. The Aeginetan standard appears to have beenused in Greece in very early times. According tomost ancient writers, money was first coined atAegina by order of Pheidon of Argos ; and theAeginetan standard was used in almost all thestates of the Peloponnesur, in Boeotia and in someother parts of northern Greece, though the Atticstandard prevailed most in the maritime and com-mercial states. The average weight of the Aeginetan drachma,calculated by Mr. Hussey (pp. 59, 60) from thecoins of Aegina and Boeotia, was 96 grains. It DUODECIM TABULARUM LEX. ECCLESIA. 439 contains about ^-nd part of the weight its value is 93 grains of pure silver, or, as before,-J^- of a shilling; that is, Is. la?. 32* 807 farthings. The largest coin of the Aeginetan stan-dard appears to have been the didrachma, and thevalues of the different coins of this standard willbe found in the Tables. The proportion of
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