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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7720288, member: 115909&quot;]Ok well as you said:</p><p><br /></p><p>“Just remember that all coins minted back then had a <i>purpose</i>.”</p><p><br /></p><p>That’s fine I agree with that.</p><p><br /></p><p>But just because they had a purpose didn’t mean they disappeared after they were used for that purpose.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example the Athenians used the silver from the Mines of Laurion to mint lots of Athenian owl Tetradrachms to fund projects like the Parthenon.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well those coins would be used to pay the workers and such and I’m guessing many of the owl coins we still have around today were used as payments for such projects. They had a purpose but many survived to the modern day.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As for the melting and reminting of coins. The only reason I brought that up is because I remember reading that after Alexander the Great conquered Persia he had many Persian gold darics melted down and reminted into gold staters with his image.</p><p><br /></p><p>My thought process was:</p><p><br /></p><p>“Maybe the Spartans melted down coins from people they conquered and reminted them to use for payments that had a <i>purpose </i>and perhaps some of those coins still survive to the modern day like how some of the owl Tetradrachms did.”</p><p><br /></p><p>In my mind and thought process it sounded like it wasn’t implausible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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