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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3024071, member: 19463&quot;]Nice drachms are harder to find than tetradrachms.&nbsp; My first coin of Athens was also a drachm a bit over 30 years ago. Yours is much better.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]752462[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Athens issued a range of silver coins from 1/8 obol to ten drachms.&nbsp; By far most common are the popular tetradrachms.&nbsp; Daily commerce relied on them all but tetradrachms were the main store of large sums.&nbsp; The existence of them by the potful including coins that never were spent singly has given us many perfect specimens.&nbsp; It will be harder to assemble the rest of the set in high grade.&nbsp; For that matter, a set in any grade is a challenge that requires luck and well as financing.</p><p><br /></p><p>hemidrachm or triobol</p><p>[ATTACH=full]752468[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>obol (1/6 drachm)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]752474[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>3/4 obol</p><p>[ATTACH=full]752470[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>hemiobol</p><p>[ATTACH=full]752476[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>1/4 obol (probably the worst known specimen)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]752477[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I lack the 1/8 obol, didrachm and dekadrachm.&nbsp; There are also bronzes but that is another post.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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