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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2717239, member: 56859"]These later style Athens tets are all kinds of funky shapes. It looks perfectly typical for the issue, at least to me (but I've browsed thousands of owl tets) and it hasn't been clipped. Some flans were just very irregular.</p><p><br /></p><p>An advantage of acquiring one of these later style Athens tets is price. They are <i>much</i> more affordable than the classical Athens owl tets (and much much more affordable than the archaics)!! This one looks like a good/typical example of the type. If you haven't already, <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?PAGE_NUM=&PAGE=1&TABS_TYPE=2&CONTAINER_TYPE_ID=1&IS_ADVANCED=1&ITEM_DESC=athens+tetradrachm%2C+profile+eye&ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?PAGE_NUM=&PAGE=1&TABS_TYPE=2&CONTAINER_TYPE_ID=1&IS_ADVANCED=1&ITEM_DESC=athens+tetradrachm%2C+profile+eye&ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1" rel="nofollow">check CNG's archives for examples of prices for this type</a>. (<-- the search link is for keywords "athens tetradrachm, profile eye". There will be a few classical tets and others in the resulting hits but focus on that eye shape when comparing yours for price and quality-- the "profile eye" is the quick way to distinguish them from the classical owl tets)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2717239, member: 56859"]These later style Athens tets are all kinds of funky shapes. It looks perfectly typical for the issue, at least to me (but I've browsed thousands of owl tets) and it hasn't been clipped. Some flans were just very irregular. An advantage of acquiring one of these later style Athens tets is price. They are [I]much[/I] more affordable than the classical Athens owl tets (and much much more affordable than the archaics)!! This one looks like a good/typical example of the type. If you haven't already, [URL='https://www.cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?PAGE_NUM=&PAGE=1&TABS_TYPE=2&CONTAINER_TYPE_ID=1&IS_ADVANCED=1&ITEM_DESC=athens+tetradrachm%2C+profile+eye&ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1']check CNG's archives for examples of prices for this type[/URL]. (<-- the search link is for keywords "athens tetradrachm, profile eye". There will be a few classical tets and others in the resulting hits but focus on that eye shape when comparing yours for price and quality-- the "profile eye" is the quick way to distinguish them from the classical owl tets)[/QUOTE]
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