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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 3203391, member: 76086&quot;]That&#039;s an interesting link and good reading. As you point out it has nothing to do with Athenian tetradrachms, but I think it has great relevance.&nbsp; The hoard referenced was very small, just 98 coins where other hoards (Athenian and otherwise) number in the many tens of thousands.&nbsp; But in that case it would seem that the hoard represented either a specific banker or worker within a very small specific frame in time.&nbsp; What we get is that whoever was making the bankers marks (in that very small time frame, liberally within one persons lifetime) is that one specific person preferred to test cut the coins in that specific manner.&nbsp; Countless thousands of other coins show that test cuts were done all over the coins and in all orientations.&nbsp; It can only be surmised that some bank workers preferred to cut the coins in one manner, others in another.</p><p><br /></p><p>And this is just another example of how ancient numismatics can still be studied and theories can be presented.&nbsp; I can only imagine that some college graduate could engage in a study of all extant and published coins and perhaps make a relation between the countermarks, the date of the coins, the locations, etc.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting to say the least.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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