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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3017440, member: 57463"]In a footnote to his Thompson festschrift contribution, Buttrey refers to the famous paper about Roman fourees by M. H. Crawford, “Plated Coins, False Coins,” <i>Numismatic Chronicle</i>, 1968. In a paper titled “Uses and Abuses of Gresham's Law in the History of Money,” Robert Mundell, of Columbia University, who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in economics calls the theory that Emergency Owls were silver-plated, rather than pure copper, “a modern inference.”</p><p>COPPER OWLS: THE EMERGENCY COINAGE OF ATHENS 406 BC by Michael E. Marotta. (An extended version of this article was published by THE CELATOR, October 2005)</p><p><br /></p><p>With <b>perhaps</b> the one notable exception--Athenian owls and drachma c. 407, that display a certain kind of eye known also from gold coins--all plated coins are false. I understand that people collect everything, but, to me, these ancient fakes are, at best, curios of limited value as artifacts, and of no other value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3017440, member: 57463"]In a footnote to his Thompson festschrift contribution, Buttrey refers to the famous paper about Roman fourees by M. H. Crawford, “Plated Coins, False Coins,” [I]Numismatic Chronicle[/I], 1968. In a paper titled “Uses and Abuses of Gresham's Law in the History of Money,” Robert Mundell, of Columbia University, who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in economics calls the theory that Emergency Owls were silver-plated, rather than pure copper, “a modern inference.” COPPER OWLS: THE EMERGENCY COINAGE OF ATHENS 406 BC by Michael E. Marotta. (An extended version of this article was published by THE CELATOR, October 2005) With [B]perhaps[/B] the one notable exception--Athenian owls and drachma c. 407, that display a certain kind of eye known also from gold coins--all plated coins are false. I understand that people collect everything, but, to me, these ancient fakes are, at best, curios of limited value as artifacts, and of no other value.[/QUOTE]
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