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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1949387, member: 19463&quot;]You are welcome.&nbsp; When it was first posted, I really expected more coins to be shown with good surfaces like the one AJ sold.&nbsp; I do agree with him that the most pleasing style is earlier (during the three tail feather era) but even if one is trying to assemble a set of the later major periods, it is hard to find centering, completeness and great surfaces all on one coin.&nbsp; The owls were struck on just about as pure silver as any coins ever were and they wore very quickly.&nbsp; Most we see probably did little duty in commerce as individuals but spent antiquity as bullion in pots of their own kind.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Those who like slabbed coins may find interest in</p><p><a href="http://www.ngccoin.com/news//viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=2245&amp;Ancients:-Owls-Through-the-Years---A-Look-at-the-Evolution-of-Athenian-Tetradrachms" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ngccoin.com/news//viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=2245&amp;Ancients:-Owls-Through-the-Years---A-Look-at-the-Evolution-of-Athenian-Tetradrachms" rel="nofollow">http://www.ngccoin.com/news//viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=2245&amp;Ancients:-Owls-Through-the-Years---A-Look-at-the-Evolution-of-Athenian-Tetradrachms</a></p><p><br /></p><p>While the test covers the pre-Classical Transitionals, they do not show one.&nbsp; CNG did sell a decent, but certainly not perfect, one.</p><p><a href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=61130" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=61130" rel="nofollow">http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=61130</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Their Classical is a great coin but missing the E.&nbsp; Their New Style has the letter on the amphora worn almost away.&nbsp; All of these are really nice coins but it illustrates the difficulty when even NGC has trouble finding perfect coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Collecting is easier for those of us who forgive faults or those who stick to collecting coins that commonly come in prefect mint state.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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