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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2750054, member: 19463&quot;]Most of us miss that the common owl tetradrachms were not the common coin of commerce but more the storage medium for large sums rather like we today use $100 bills.&nbsp; Pots of them survive in great shape.&nbsp; Meanwhile down in the marketplace, people made daily purchases like a hunk of bread dipped in oil (Gyros had not been invented yet???) using smaller coins.&nbsp; Most of these were &#039;used up&#039; lost or destroyed.&nbsp; The ones we have are more likely to be individual finds than hoarded with a thousand like them in a nice safe pot. Most common of the smalls is the obol or 1/24 tetradrachm which is what yours is.&nbsp;&nbsp; They come in 1/8,1/4, 1/2, 1, 1.5, 2 &amp; 3 obols.&nbsp; Six obols makes a drachm which comes in 1, 2, 4 and 10 sizes.&nbsp; 2 and 10 are rare.&nbsp; Who out there is trying for the set?&nbsp; Not I but I do really want a 1/8 obol.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like everyone else here, I&#039;m not willing to say it is or is not either genuine of Athenian rather than from some outlying area. I tend to believe it is ancient.&nbsp; I&#039;m less certain it is Athenian regular mint issue.&nbsp; Like tetradrachms, the little ones come in styles expert date over a period of a couple centuries.&nbsp; While perhaps a hundred times more rare than the tetradrachm, the demand for these little guys is not as high so people like me can afford them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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