Talk:Ancient Greek coinage

Comments
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
"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)

Era format
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. Sak ura Cart elet Talk 15:40, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree. The article is now consistently using BC/AD era designators. Paul August &#9742; 20:23, 21 December 2018 (UTC)