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>>54238096
>Nice bird too. What is that, ptolemic?
Yep, a Ptolemy II bronze Drachm from Egypt, that one weighs 67 grams, the fuggers are bigboi chonkers. They also made octobols (8/6ths or 1 and 1/3rd drachm) that weigh ~95+g but nice ones will set ya back $1000 or more. I'll get one someday. For reasons I haven't investigated yet silver was scarce in the ptolemaic kingdom so within the borders they functioned on a largely bronze-standard, much like early Republican Rome with their gigantic "Aes Grave" (heavy bronze) coinage standard, with each cast bronze coin weighing up to around 341 grams. I'll get one of them someday too, but you're looking at $2000 minimum for a nice example. Rome didn't strike their first silver coins until around 280 BC, much later than the rest of the Mediterranean. Copperchads would have felt quite at home back when big purchases required wagonloads of bulky base metal.
>>54241384
>but I personally dislike artificial rarity or "collectible" items. This whole "Buy this now! We made only a few of them, so they'll become valuable!" just doesn't work for me. I prefer my rarity occurring naturally, thank you very much.

100% agreed, genuine natural scarcity is universally preferable to muh Limited Mintage Funko-Coins. In my headcanon only coins struck for circulation are true numismatics, contrived commemoratives and other gimmicks are like trannies or fake balloon tits; completely inauthentic and undesirable to me.