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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8198741, member: 128351&quot;]Most Athenian tetradrachms known today come from hoards, some of them enormous (in Egypt it is often 1000s of coins). In &quot;Le monnayage d&#039;argent d&#039;Athènes&quot; Christophe Flament lists all the known hoards containing Athenian owls : we can see that the large majority of these hoards were found outside Athen&#039;s territory, in countries where owls circulated as international currency. The drachms and other subdivisions were minted in Athens mostly for domestic circulation. Outside Athens they needed drachms and obols too, but because Athens did not export them, the Middle Eastern cities minted their own Athenian drachms, with or without a mint-mark...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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