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<p>[QUOTE="Collect89, post: 1464903, member: 15445"]I think the general design is famous. When I originally purchased the coin I started a thread titled something like "I got an example of the famous Greek Coin" :smile</p><p>I know very little about ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand that the silver mines of Athens supplied enough riches to allow the Greek civilization to flourish. A bunch of these 449-413 BC tetradrachm coins were manufactured to pay the army personnel in the Peloponnesian wars. They also made smaller & larger denominations in silver with the same recognizable owl/Athena designs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Collect89, post: 1464903, member: 15445"]I think the general design is famous. When I originally purchased the coin I started a thread titled something like "I got an example of the famous Greek Coin" :smile I know very little about ancient coins. I understand that the silver mines of Athens supplied enough riches to allow the Greek civilization to flourish. A bunch of these 449-413 BC tetradrachm coins were manufactured to pay the army personnel in the Peloponnesian wars. They also made smaller & larger denominations in silver with the same recognizable owl/Athena designs.[/QUOTE]
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