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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 3455801, member: 42773&quot;]Kroll suggests that all early 4th-century Owl Tets were remonetized in Athens, which explains the dearth of examples of those types in Athenian hoards. Examples from the first half of the century are found more so outside of Athens - coins that had traveled and thereby escaped the restriking edict. Also, any foreign silver that was being traded as equal to Athenian tetradrachms would also have been subjected to the &quot;improvement.&quot; Small change was left alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>I repost the article that Nemo linked in his previous thread. This paper answers many questions - a must-read for anyone interested in Owl Tets, or ancient remonitization schemes in general...</p><p><br /></p><p><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">https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/hesperia.80.2.0229.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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