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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1662143, member: 19463&quot;]Rarely do I disagree more with a comment.&nbsp; Between about 500 and 200 BC, Athens issues what appears to the uninformed what might be considered the same coin.&nbsp; To specialists they are as different as the 300 years as Roman denarii.&nbsp; It is just that Athens did not openly code the coins but relied upon much more subtle differences to separate one from another.&nbsp; I once knew a collector who had a couple hundred of these and considered each one a significantly different coin.&nbsp; The ones shown here have mostly been the common Classical and late versions.&nbsp; If you research acsearch you will find some of the more unusual variations that brought up to $400000 in great condition and $3000 with damage and multiple test cuts.&nbsp; Knowing how to separate the two is a matter lost on people only interested in grade but I do admit that there are people who would pass up the $400000 coin in favor of a mint state common type.&nbsp; Pressures for non-collectors who want to make charm bracelets from the things keep the prices for the common ones where I can not have all I might want but they are not what drives the market for the $400000 coin.&nbsp; We can spare a few thousand high grade Classical and late coins to feed the slabbers but let&#039;s not confuse all these coins with the ones we each might be well advised to learn to recognize.&nbsp; I wonder if this one has been slabbed?</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=540222" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=540222" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=540222</a>&nbsp; </p><p>The following is the style I&#039;d like to find as a sleeper but I&#039;ll not be paying $151k.</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=469132" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=469132" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=469132</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone remember this coin lover?&nbsp; Can you see the charm? I hope it was a common one.&nbsp; Slabbing is not the worst fate for a coin.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH]245461.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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