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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3008093, member: 19463&quot;]While I agree Grandpa&#039;s Athens tet is not good, it is wholly inappropriate to pronounce it fake compared to one genuine but very different coin.&nbsp; The best book I have on the subject (Svoronos) has 45 plates each with dozens of variations which he divides into groups.&nbsp; The earlier ones look a lot more like Grandpa&#039;s coin while the later ones are closer to Andres&#039; example.&nbsp; We see relatively few of these first group New Styles and it is a shame that it is not something we comfortably can accept from the photo.&nbsp; The one below from CNG is closer to what Grandpa hoped he had.</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=264431" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=264431" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=264431</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone seems to want an Athenian tetradrachm.&nbsp; I like them, too, but I can&#039;t want just one.&nbsp; Many recognize Archaic,&nbsp; Transitional, Classical, Intermediate and New Style coins.&nbsp; However each of those groups can be subdivided into several sub-divisons and that is just for tetradrachms.&nbsp; There are many other denominations in silver, plenty of bronzes and even a few golds.&nbsp; A decent collection of Athenian coins would be several hundred coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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