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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AussieCollector, post: 3266239, member: 81093&quot;]Just thought I&#039;d share for interest.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have now accumulated three Tetradrachms, all from different centuries and from different areas. So I thought I&#039;d line them all up and scan them in to show the contrasts between the three of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins below are all Greek, are all within 0.55 grams of each other, are all the same denomination - yet they all have wildly different flan sizes.</p><p><br /></p><p>(The Thasos Tetradrachm in particular didn&#039;t scan well because it is slightly concave).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]860383[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>From left to right:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Athens, Attica</b> (350-300 B.C.), silver Tetradrachm, (17.10g)</p><p>Obv: head of Athena to right wearing ivy crested helmet, eye in profile, </p><p>Rev: owl standing to right, head facing, in erect posture, olive twig and crescent behind</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Susa, Syria</b> (295 to 291 B.C.), silver Tetradrachm (16.78)</p><p>Obv: Head of Herakles, in lion skin headdress</p><p>Rev: Zeus seated, with scepter and eagle.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Thasos, Thrace</b> (After 148 BC), silver Tetradrachm, (16.65g)</p><p>Obv: Wreathed head of Dionysus&nbsp; </p><p>Rev: Herakles, standing left, resting on club, lion skin draped over left arm[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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