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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ab initio, post: 2618268, member: 80317&quot;]I have a small collection of Greek (Classical and Hellenistic) silver, formed over the last half century, composed of &quot;pierced&quot; coins. They demonstrate a variety of piercings, from the very rough and forceful random type to the very fine and &quot;well thought out&quot; piercing that considers the position of the obverse head type relative to the hole. That has led me to think that piercings were carried out not necessarily at the same period when the coins circulated but in many cases much later. One of my favorites used to be a large late Classical bronze of Tegea on the Peloponnesos that had a very big hole right in the middle of it, on the head of Athena. It is a very rare coin and it was sold with all my other Peloponnesian material a few years ago. I still believe it was nailed to the temple of Athena at Tegea which we know was wooden.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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