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>>56209007
>How the fuck could they use this as medium of exchange before the acrilyc ziplock bag was invented lol? I have to use my x30 jeweler loupe for full obols ffs..

Besides standard old-school coin purses/sacks, they've found ancient bronze bracelet or armlet purses where the opening would have been kept sealed when while it was pushed tight against your skin on your arm, see picrel.

The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote scenes where characters went to market with the small coins kept in their mouth for safekeeping, it sounds sensible to me:

>Some people today contend that the ancient Greeks carried fractions like this in their mouths when going to and from the marketplace, based on the plays of the Aristophanes, including The Birds, c. 414 BC, and Ekklesiazusae (The Assemblywomen), c. 392 BC, both of which survive, and Aiolosikon, which survives only in fragments or later quotes. In The Birds, a character describes himself looking up in surprise and accidentally swallowing an obol. In Ekklesiazusae, a character describes himself going off to market with a jawful of coppers to buy some flour. In Aiolosikon, a character describes himself carrying a two-obol piece in his mouth. But Aristophanes was a comic playwright, and elsewhere in The Birds he talks about purses or money bags.

https://rg.ancients.info/alexander/fractions.html