Talk:Ancient Greek coinage

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Look, I've put this information up here three times. This time I haven't copied a SINGLE WORD from any other website (including my own). Please don't delete it again. -- I'm really getting tired of having to put this original work up again and again. Please tell me what copyrighted material you think I'm violating! -- Put some info on Modern greek coins--Plato 05:40, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

You are free to write an article on Modern Greek coinage, but not here. Adam 02:58, 19 October 2005 [UTC]

Failure Rate[edit]

"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)[reply]

Era format[edit]

This article currently uses both the BC and BCE format in the page. For consistency's sake we probably should change it to use either all BC/AD or all BCE/CE instead of mixing them. Sakura Cartelet^Talk 15:40, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. The article is now consistently using BC/AD era designators. Paul August ☎ 20:23, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]