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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3719805, member: 99456&quot;]Although I don&#039;t have a Tenedos coin, I am a fan of the weirdly shaped flan.&nbsp; A few hundred years after your coin, in Athens they still hadn&#039;t perfected - at least not in a rush.&nbsp; As with this hastily folded and restruck tetradrachm.</p><p><font size="4"><i>&quot;not only are the flans commonly misshapen, but a number of them are so distorted that numismatists and coin collectors in Greece have long referred to them as “logs” (<b>koutsoura</b>); these are the tetradrachms in the form of long, stretched ovals with one or two nearly straight sides&quot;</i></font></p><p><font size="4">&nbsp;- John Kroll <a href="https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/hesperia.80.2.0229.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/hesperia.80.2.0229.pdf" rel="nofollow">article</a></font></p><p>[ATTACH=full]997083[/ATTACH]</p><p>Attica, Athens (353-294 B.C) AR Tetradrachm</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Helmeted head of Athena right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> AΘE Owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent to left; all within incuse square.</p><p><b>Size: </b>17x28mm, 17.0g</p><p><br /></p><p>and a couple hundred years later in Rhagai they still weren&#039;t perfect...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]997078[/ATTACH]Kings of Parthia, <b>Arsakes XVI</b>, 78/7-62/1 BC, AR Drachm, Rhagai mint</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Diademed bust left; torque ends in pellet</p><p><b>Rev: </b>Archer (Arsakes I) seated right on throne, holding bow</p><p><b>Size: </b>21mm, 4.16g</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Sellwood 30.17 (Unknown King)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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