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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8076734, member: 128351&quot;]Philistines? You could not say it better. Test-cutting Attic tetradrachms was a current practice in 4th c. BC Philistian cities like Gaza, Ascalon, Raphia... It seems cut coins were accepted as well as intact ones. Maybe even better, because you could see there were solid silver. A hoard found in Rafah contained hundreds of imitative drachms and more than 350 Attic tetradrachms: approx. one half of the tetradrachms were defaced one may or another, with countermarks, punches, drills, test-cuts on the reverse or even on the obverse... </p><p>Well... this was not only Philistian. The Attic owls of the so-called &quot;1973 Iraq Hoard&quot;, allegedly found near Babylon, were even more defaced ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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