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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2135719, member: 19463&quot;]Coins do not get wear from being old but from being circulated.&nbsp; Large silvers that were kept and traded in large bank pots with a thousand just like them did not get worn.&nbsp; That is why we have so many Athenian owls in great shape.&nbsp; These were too valuable for purchases at the lunch counter.&nbsp; They were more for things that we today would pay by bank check.&nbsp; I agree there are more Seleucid coins that show wear so it is a question what differences in the regional economies made their tets circulate more.&nbsp; Of course it could be a question of finds.&nbsp; Some ancients are known from very few but large finds.&nbsp; If today&#039;s entire supply of a coin all came from a chest of 5000 brand new ones found together in 1700, there would be no low grade coins.&nbsp; If all had been found singly in thousands of different plowed fields, there might be no nice ones.&nbsp; There are people who study such things and write books on coin hoard patterns but it has never been an interest of mine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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