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Message:: [QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 3524614, member: 86498"]To answer Theodosius's post. I am not too certain that  hoards over the last few decades have had the effect of making very  scarce coins more common. In a few cases he is absolutely correct. I can think of two cases of hand these being the what I usually call the "wet head" Leontini Tetradrachm (HGC 671) which I believe was known only by a few coins until the Athena Fund auctions placed a large number on the market place. The second was the hoard of Phaselis staters (Heipp-Tamer's Group 6 )which was known by only two coins in 1993 but some hundreds of coins have been put into the marketplace over the last few years. In fact it looks likely that her Group 6 needs to be divided into two sub groups.This list is not exhaustive, I am certain that other members of the group can cite other instances. The general impact of hoards was to usually to increase the number of coins that were already common though perhaps their greatest impact was to massively increase the numbers of high grade specimens. Perhaps as significant is the dispersal of a number of important collections such as BCD. 1. Leontini Tetradrachm "wethead" HGC 6712. Phaselis Stater  Group 6 a3. Phaselis Stater Group 6  b[ATTACH=full]936237[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]936238[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]936239[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]