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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8091402, member: 19463&quot;]I disagree.&nbsp; I would suspect that a much higher number of Athenian tetradrachms by percentage survived in good condition to be found today because the majority of those coins made never entered circulation but were placed in pots in the same way many silver dollars were bagged and placed in bank vaults a century ago.&nbsp; Certainly some owls were spent but most were part of a larger unit.&nbsp; Field finds of individual coins may exist but those &#039;mint bags&#039; were protected in a way that allowed them to be found by the thousand.&nbsp; Smaller fractions were released into circulation and spent until lost (or swallowed?) so a mint state coin is proportionally less likely.&nbsp; I knew a collector years ago who had a worn dekadrachm.&nbsp; The best explanation was that the coin was a pocket piece carried by a gentleman of means sometime in the last 300 years (or whenever they started having pockets in clothing).&nbsp; More dekadrachms are EF; a VG would be exceptional.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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