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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2434785, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255)">Hey Mentor, as you probably already know, I&#039;m certainly not an expert at the nitty-gritty coin details ... but I usually call the older incuse-type &quot;archaic&quot; (4th-5th-6th century BC) ... but I admit that incuse-type coins from the 4th century BC are probably getting a bit &quot;modern&quot; to be called archaic, eh?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">For example, this incuse-punch example &quot;Bull on Grain&quot; is from 340-320 BC (it may be a bit of a stretch calling it an archaic?) ... but because it has such a cool incuse-punch reverse, it gets lumped-in</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Bithynia, Kalchedon AR Siglos Bull</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/bull-siglos-jpg.506200/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">On the flip-side, I didn&#039;t include a few coins from the 5th century BC which probably should be called archaic, but because they&#039;re not incuse-type examples, I don&#039;t think of &#039;em that way ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">example =&gt; Syracuse Heiron I Tet (480 BC) </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]506343[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">This baby is certainly old enough to be considered archaic, but because it isn&#039;t an incuse-punch type, I never include it when I&#039;m showing my archaic stuff! (maybe I should?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">again, I am certainly &quot;not&quot; an expert in these coin-details ... I merely kinda go with it!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; anything that is &quot;old&quot; and has a noticeable incuse-punch seems to fit into my definition of an &quot;archaic coin&quot; (they are the coins that I love!!)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Here is a classic example of what I think is an archaic coin ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/macedon-eion-double-geese-jpg.506227/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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