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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3521411, member: 19463&quot;]That is a nice specimen of the most popular of all ancient coins.&nbsp; The recent hoard of them has made these Classical period coins easy to find but does not seem to have brought down the price.&nbsp; I have seen nearly perfect ones for $2k and coins I would not be ashamed to own for $500.&nbsp; TIF covered the matter of them not being Archaic AKA the owl I want to acquire.&nbsp; Most Archaic tets are pretty awful looking but they are what appeals to me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite owl is from the transitional period after Archaic and before Classical.&nbsp; Most important, it is an obol or 1/24th of a tetradrachm.&nbsp; Obols are not rare (there may be one of them for every ten thousand tetradrachms<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />?) but early ones are scarce and this one is special to me for the flan shape.&nbsp; Obviously it has many faults and would not be considered collectible were it a tetradrachm.&nbsp; It is my only pre-Classical Athenian fraction. Few sellers of fractions make any attempt to classify them as to period.&nbsp; I have no intention of buying an more tetradrachms but would like to fill out my denomination set.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]935044[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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