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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2045971, member: 19463&quot;]Coin collectors and particularly the ones who write books on coins seem to want to force some very non Greek coins into their books on Greek coins.&nbsp; Some of these non-Greek people did themselves no favor in this regard by using Greek letters on their coins.&nbsp; I can argue all day that the Parthians and Kushans were not Greek but their coin legends make their coins sure look that way.&nbsp; On the other hand we have Iberian and Phoenician coins with their own letters but collectors still go to Sear Greek Coins and their values when they want a catalog number.&nbsp; Go figure.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Purists will not understand what you mean if you call 600-200 BC &#039;Archaic&#039; which they will reserve for the earliest Greek coins (and art) before Classical which was before Hellenistic.&nbsp; You can argue about exact start and stop dates.&nbsp; Of the thing I stopped believing in long ago, hard, fixed dates expressed in modern calendar terms are high on the list.&nbsp; Rome stopped falling in 476 AD in my book years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>I love archaic coins, too.&nbsp; Those are roughly the first 10% or so of Greek coins made.&nbsp; When they started using round reverse dies and started worrying about making coins round and even, things started going downhill.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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