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We can only guess but when you look at the intricate details you cannot help but wonder how the Celetor was able to cut the dies without the aids of enlargement we have today as well as all the fine hardened tools to do such intricate work.

It is quite easy to be transformed to another time while examining these little masterpieces.

The ancient Greeks during their height of power exerted influence over a vast area from as far away as India and possibly southern China. This influence was so great that even after the Romans conquered the Greeks the Romans continued to issue coins in these areas and used Greek writing on their coins.

If you can think of a something beautiful, then it was likely on a Greek Coin at some time in history. Various motif will be common throughout particular areas or regions which helps in identification of the hundreds of thousands of designs.