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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3179473, member: 76194&quot;]Sweet, your Athenian Tet is the archaic type from the golden age of Athenian democracy. Someone who knew or heard Aristotle or Pericles speak would have without a doubt held that coin in their hands, especially when one considers the relatively small population of Athens in antiquity.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ve inspired me.to share another Greek. This otherwise stunning hemidrachm from Thrace has a B grafitty on the reverse. It is very light, but it&#039;s there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Could be from antiquity, or it could be a Renaissance era collector who decided to mark his collection (a common practice amongst coin collectors in the 16th through 18th centuries). <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Terrifying, I know, but that&#039;s just one of the many things collectors did centuries ago that would make us cringe today.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]819076[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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