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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 4534496, member: 110226"]I can only speculate that heating, folding and restriking was an expedient measure to speed up the minting process. Why they would do this to existing owls is a good question. Perhaps the mint was under orders to take coins of old designs, go through this process, to produce the new owls. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think there was also an issue that the silver mines of Laurion were starting to play out, so the recycling program began in the 4th century BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 4534496, member: 110226"]I can only speculate that heating, folding and restriking was an expedient measure to speed up the minting process. Why they would do this to existing owls is a good question. Perhaps the mint was under orders to take coins of old designs, go through this process, to produce the new owls. I think there was also an issue that the silver mines of Laurion were starting to play out, so the recycling program began in the 4th century BC.[/QUOTE]
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