[Equivalent to] 7 lepta ['lights, mites']. See under 'talent'.[1]
*xalkou=s: leptw=n z#. kai\ zh/tei e)n tw=| ta/lanton.
Entry lacking, Adler reports, in mss AFS; added in the margin of M.
See generally John Melville-Jones,
A Dictionary of Ancient Greek Coins (London 1986) s.v. chalkos and, esp., lepton ['It is far from certain that the word was ever officially applied to any denomination' -- despite
Mark 12:42, on the widow's 'two mites, which make a farthing'].
[1]
tau 34.
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