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Message:: [QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 3455058, member: 86498"]What I can remember of this period is this and it is a very short statement covering a long and complicated issue. Circa about 392 B.C. Athens resumed the production of a silver tetradrachm coinage. At this time they adopted a profile eye on the face of Athena. These coins seem to have been struck using a number of different styles including mine which I refer to as the "Doll" face. Sometime about 353 B.C. the authorities in Athens decided to restrike the older coins and they used a rather extraordinary method of doing so. The older coins were basically folded over and then restruck. This seems like a remarkably difficult way of doing it but i guess the process would completely obliterate the under type. This group of coins are known as the "PI" style tetradrachms as the palment is in the shape of a double letter pi. This process may have lasted till sometime around 300 B.C.  Athens Tetradrachm c. 392 B.C.[ATTACH=full]918478[/ATTACH]Athens Tetradrachm c. 353B.C.[ATTACH=full]918479[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]