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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2651190, member: 19463&quot;]Most of the large coins we have circulated little but were hoarded or transferred in pots full for large transactions.&nbsp; Most people didn&#039;t put away thousands of fractional silvers in a nice protective pot so most of what we have were probably &#039;field finds&#039; or things lost in the market place (we won&#039;t touch topic of the ones that were swallowed and where they went).&nbsp; I suspect the larger groups that were found together were more likely to be a merchant&#039;s cash register than a life savings hoard.&nbsp; No, I can&#039;t prove that.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In my time in the hobby, I recall seeing exactly one really worn dekadrachm and it always bothered me a little just how that coin got that way.&nbsp; I suspect it was a pocket piece of a gentleman sometime a couple hundred years ago.&nbsp; More of them are EF,&nbsp; The same goes for Athenian owl tetradrachms.&nbsp; I once say a dealer with a large bag of nice ones all about the same date marked &#039;Your Choice, $500&#039; but I can&#039;t recall seeing a similar group of hemiobols.&nbsp; Individual field finds that spent 2000 years in the dirt have every right to be a bit rough.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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