It is hard to imagine that for every Athenian tetradrachm (this one 17.14grs) the miners had to take out 64kg of ore from the mine galleries of Thorikos and the Lavriotiki, besides the stone waste. [Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum 14.047; 310-290 BCE; APM Mededelingen 118/118, 2018]
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