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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tenacious, post: 548623, member: 14553&quot;]Down at the bottom of this page <a href="http://www.onassis.gr/publications/index.php?lang=en&amp;bid=athens-sparta" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.onassis.gr/publications/index.php?lang=en&amp;bid=athens-sparta" rel="nofollow">Athens - Sparta</a> is an article on <i><b>The Coinage of Sparta</b></i>. The article is short but informative. And unfortunately it doesn&#039;t show the pictures from the book. But it&#039;s still a good read.</p><p><br /></p><p>The author, Ioannis Touratsoglou, is or was, director of the Athens Museum of Numismatics. So it has credibility and it was published in 2006 so the info should be current.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also see <a href="http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/peloponnesus.html#Lacedaemon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/peloponnesus.html#Lacedaemon" rel="nofollow">Ed Snible&#039;s page.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When someone gets interested in coins from Sparta, they are often thinking of the time period of the great Peloponnesian War 431–404 BC, or earlier during The Greek and Persian Wars, when the more historic episodes took place. <i>At least I did</i>. I was disappointed to find that they didn&#039;t mint &quot;proper&quot; coins until much later. Although if I could add a Spartan iron ingot to my early Greek collection I would be ecstatic![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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