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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1036356, member: 19463&quot;]If you didn&#039;t read medoraman&#039;s last post, you should.&nbsp; Coin collectors tend to overdo the forcing of things into pigeonholes and the one I find most offensive is that ancient coins must be either Greek or Roman.&nbsp; Part of it comes from David Sear&#039;s books Greek Coins and their Values series which included a lot of places that never considered themselves &#039;Greek&#039; even if some of them used Greek letters on their coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is not so bad to consider coins like this &#039;Greek&#039; if you look at it like this:&nbsp; Coins originated in three places.&nbsp; In China, coins were cast in molds and tend to be round with square holes.&nbsp; In India, rough cut slabs of silver received a series of overlapping punches.&nbsp; In the Mediterranean, &#039;Greek&#039; cultures made coins by striking blanks between dies engraved with a design.&nbsp; If we consider this last group &#039;of the Greek style&#039; then I can deal with calling them &#039;Greek&#039;.&nbsp; Today, all coins seem to be descendants of the &#039;Greek&#039; style and we often overlook that it was not always that way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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