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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2722109, member: 19463&quot;]The reason not to buy that coin would be if you are one who wants a nose on his Athena and a tail on his owl.&nbsp; I would much rather than one with wear or a test cut than one missing what I consider important details but that is me, not the coin and certainly not a matter of right or wrong.&nbsp; The fact that they made millions of these means that we can buy what we want and walk away from what we don&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>Smaller coins also come in silver.&nbsp; Below is a coin that I doubt anyone reading this would have even considered buying except for me and I am most certainly weird.&nbsp; The coin is a 1/4 obol (a tad light at 0.15g) or 1/96 of the tetradrachm.&nbsp; It is clearly the worst one of the 3-4 I have seen on the market in the last several decades and not really what I wanted buy a &#039;settle-for&#039; coin.&nbsp; You see, Athens made a 1/8 obol or half this size coin but I still don&#039;t have that one.&nbsp; Most I have seen offered were actually not Athenian but imitations made in the East.&nbsp; That does not count IMO.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]616901[/ATTACH] </p><p>The coin has a lot of the helmet crest but no face or neck whatsoever.&nbsp; This denomination has one crescent as a reverse type.&nbsp; Mine shows the Alpha and Theta rather clearly but the Epsilon was off flan.&nbsp; I bought it from a recently retired dealer who understood that there were a few, a very few, customers who would want the thing so he did not have it slabbed.&nbsp; I hope I find a 1/8 obol and will accept what I find but I I really hope it is a bit more full design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a much nicer, but huge, 3/4 obol (.50g) using the same one crescent per quarter rule.&nbsp; This one would be easier to sell due to its perfect centering. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]616902[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Half obols (.35g) had owls:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]616905[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>High rollers among you may want the ten drachm piece which really makes the tetradrachms look tiny.&nbsp; In the late 1980&#039;s I knew a collector who owned the worst known example.&nbsp; It was then considered to be a $10,000 coin.&nbsp; Those were the good old days.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=96643" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=96643" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=96643</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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