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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4603803, member: 19463"]I'm with DonnaML on this one. Dealers and students apply names like Cistophoric to make them sound better. The coin is a tetradrachm and a very nice one. It followed the issues of tetradrachms that did have the chest of snakes and were called tetradrachms even though their weight was three drachms by previous standards. It may be a fine line but I question whether we need to call the issues 'chest bearing' just because it was the lighter standard. These are terms imposed by previous students. Are there records that suggest the term was used in the time the coins were current?</p><p><br /></p><p>There will always be a question of how one person can be a dealer and a collector without doing a disservice to his customers or to himself. It is asking too much not to allow a dealer to have coins of his own but I would prefer a dealer who was not competing with me for the coins I want and was only willing to sell his castoffs. I am a collector. I resell coins I do not want (mistakes, duplicates and changes in my view of things) and have trouble telling other people that they should want what I don't. I could not be a dealer; it would ruin my hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4603803, member: 19463"]I'm with DonnaML on this one. Dealers and students apply names like Cistophoric to make them sound better. The coin is a tetradrachm and a very nice one. It followed the issues of tetradrachms that did have the chest of snakes and were called tetradrachms even though their weight was three drachms by previous standards. It may be a fine line but I question whether we need to call the issues 'chest bearing' just because it was the lighter standard. These are terms imposed by previous students. Are there records that suggest the term was used in the time the coins were current? There will always be a question of how one person can be a dealer and a collector without doing a disservice to his customers or to himself. It is asking too much not to allow a dealer to have coins of his own but I would prefer a dealer who was not competing with me for the coins I want and was only willing to sell his castoffs. I am a collector. I resell coins I do not want (mistakes, duplicates and changes in my view of things) and have trouble telling other people that they should want what I don't. I could not be a dealer; it would ruin my hobby.[/QUOTE]
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