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Old 06-01-2008, 05:41 PM
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I was just admiring TNDAVE's mercury dime and thought id share a mercury that i found a couple of months ago. Its a roman steelyard weight.
It depicts the bust of the diety Mercury, messenger of the roman gods. You can see the wings in his hair.
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Old 06-01-2008, 06:59 PM
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Interesting--what is a steelyard weight?

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Old 06-01-2008, 09:12 PM
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That's pretty cool. Nice find!
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That is a really interesting find! I've never heard of something like that before.

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Very interesting find. Jim

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Awesome find! Verry cool.
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That's really neat.

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