Mother of all Ancient coins..

Cant forget my Intermediate Style

393 - 294 BC

 

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Fake!!!


... ooops, I mean "awesome" ...



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Lol... Bologna!!

Did your grape juice go bad, again?

 

Easter weekend .... sadly, I'm on-call, so no drinkin' (but that starts "tomorrow night!!)

:cheers:

 

Really really nice coin. The details are superb, congratulations on picking that coin up.

 

Thank every one..:hail: i new his coin was for me, C89 way awesome, Anoob, way awesome, i new you had another one there...i hope your not robbing little noobs college fund to much...

 

:hail:

 

+1

It's called diversifying

Can't put all of your eggs in one basket!

 

Hi Eng & Thanks for your comments.

Actually that owl came from Stack's NYICS auction in Jan, 2012 (lot#213). That collection had some major rarities in the Greek series and I think that's what everyone was looking at. Thus this owl and a very early electrum gold stater http://www.coinsandhistory.com/countries/Greek_coins.html#Electrum Stater slipped thru the cracks and I got 'em for a decent price. I was really excited about the full electrum stater which was quite rare.

Actually I bought the Owl because Athens is of such paramount historical importance to the world's early history as well as being an early democracy. I do talks at schools about old coins and an Athenian tet is necessary to show off Athens.