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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1434067, member: 19463&quot;]To be on the fair side, Red Figure pottery of the best style is late 6th to early 4th centuries BC which is similar to the range of the best coinage period except that some cities (particularly Athens) was slower to adapt to modern styles perhaps because it was important to keep money in the &#039;good old days&#039; to keep it trusted.&nbsp; Art and coinage changed as the world passed into the Hellenistic period and few consider this change an improvement.&nbsp; For the most part, we find Greek bronze coinage a step down from the silver of the same period but I suspect we should consider it the parallel of the undecorated utilitarian pottery used by the masses while the big silver has more in common with the Red Figure ware which was produced for the elite.&nbsp; Guys like me in the 5th century did not own pots signed by artists but used the then current equivalent of Wal-Mart plasticware.&nbsp;&nbsp; Neither did we have a pocket full of dekadrachms.&nbsp; Modern production methods make it easy to make a million copies of a die and many million matching coins of whatever style we wish.&nbsp; The old way required deciding whether the good work was applied to the coins for the poor or the coins for the rich.&nbsp; Guess who won that one![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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