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Athenian tetradrachm coinage of the first half of the fourth century [19 p., 5 pl.]
Author Abstract Because all earlier 4th tetradrachms in Attica were called in and restruck in the year 354/3 BC, hardly any of that coinage has survived except for specimens that had been exported before the restriking and were buried abroad, especially in Egyptian and Sicilian hoards. The Athenian components of several of these hoards together with other published and unpublished tetradrachms make it clear that this coinage of c.400/390 to 353 was not only substantial, but was one of the most prolific Greek coinages of the period. Discussed also is the literary evidence pertaining to the start of the coinage and the origin of the owl tetradrachms belonging to Buttrey’s style x.
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