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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2091943, member: 19463&quot;]Sometimes it amazes me that the most popular coin of all ancients has been as little studied as it has.&nbsp; There are studies of smaller periods like the archaics and the Pi type late ones but the &#039;Classicals&#039; in the middle when Athens was the big deal of the Greek world had so many dies and was copied by so many other places that it would be more than one life time&#039;s work to sort it out let alone do a full die study.&nbsp; It is a shame but the 454-404 dodge is the safe one.&nbsp; I really enjoy looking at the photos in my copy of the Svoronos book but can&#039;t fool myself into believing in all the dated divisions.&nbsp; I would love to know just how many die cutters worked in those 50 years at Athens.&nbsp; I&#039;ll bet the mint was a busy place.&nbsp; How many of the coins survive?&nbsp; Six digits?&nbsp; Seven?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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