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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 8091544, member: 44316&quot;]Copper from Athens was mentioned, but not illustrated. Here is one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1406405[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>19-17 mm. 7.03 grams.</p><p>Head of Athena in crested Corinthian helmet, right.</p><p>Zeus standing right, brandishing thunderbolt,</p><p>A</p><p>Θ&nbsp; E&nbsp; for Athens.</p><p>Sear Greek 2567. SNG Copenhagen Attica, Athens 307 &quot;c. 87-86 BC&quot;</p><p>BMC Attica XIV.5 &quot;c. 220-83 BC&quot;</p><p>McClean II plate 210.11 &quot;after c. 322 BC.&quot;</p><p>Hoover Handbook 1709, with many similar types dated from 196-87/6 BC.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You can see that scholars had a hard time deciding on narrow date ranges for these AE coins. The booklet &quot;Greek and Roman Coins in the Athenian Agora&quot; has many AE types found there illustrated. This type is the first one on figure 14 with &quot;second century BC&quot; proposed for the several types shown there. As others have noted, copper was spent and became worn so that only a very small fraction remain in high grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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