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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3403697, member: 99456&quot;]In contrast to the very nice looking coins above, here&#039;s my only Athenian tetradrachm.&nbsp; It clearly fits the description in the paper referenced below of a &quot;pi-style tetradrachm&quot;, with it&#039;s folded, thick, log shaped flan (&quot;koutsoura&quot;) and with the AOE starting from the owl&#039;s neck rather than that side of the head.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><i>&quot;not only are the flans commonly misshapen, but a number of them are so distorted that numismatists and coin collectors in Greece have long referred to them as “logs” (koutsoura); these are the tetradrachms in the form of long, stretched ovals with one or two nearly straight sides&quot; </i></font></p><p><font size="4"><i>- John Kroll 2011 ref. <a href="https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/hesperia.80.2.0229.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/hesperia.80.2.0229.pdf" rel="nofollow">article</a></i></font></p><p>[ATTACH=full]903697[/ATTACH]</p><p>These were hastily restruck in an Athenian program starting from 353 BC to raise revenue during the fiscal crisis in the aftermath of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_War_(357%E2%80%93355_BC)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_War_(357%E2%80%93355_BC)" rel="nofollow">Social War</a> (357-355 BC).&nbsp; I find it hard to tell with the wear if this is type Pi II or type Pi III - I lean toward type II.</p><p><br /></p><p>Add a few bankers marks and you have an ugly but interesting coin aka lump.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attica, Athens </b>(353-294 B.C) AR Tetradrachm</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Helmeted head of Athena right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> AΘE Owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent to left; all within incuse square.</p><p><b>Size:</b> 17x28mm, 17.04g[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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