Superb owl Sunday

MYSIA. Pergamon. (Circa 200-133 BC).
AE (Bronze, 2.76 g, 17 mm)
Head of Athena right, wearing helmet decorated with star. / AΘHNAΣ / NIKHΦOPOY.
Owl, with wings spread, standing facing on palm frond right.



Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Obol (9 mm, 0.75 g). Athens head right. / Owl standing right, facing, olive spray to left.



Athens. 460-404 BC. Tetradrachm (17.06 g)

 

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Sigeium, Troas. AR drachm. 400-300 BC. 16mm, 3.09 g. Helmeted head of Athena facing three-quarters right. / ΣIΓE, owl standing right, head facing, crescent behind head.

 

Post Sullan Siege NewStyles in my collection


Athens New Style Tetradrachm c84/3 BC
Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet
28 mm 16.47 gm Thompson issue 81 Thompson catalogue: Obs 1160 ? Rev: NEW
Rev : ΑΘΕ ethnic
Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora
on which month mark B control [] below
2 magistrates : KLEOPHANES EPITHETHES
RF symbol : Beatyl with Fillets
All surrounded by an olive wreath

Athens New Style Tetradrachm c83/2 BC
Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet
29 mm 16.82 gm Thompson issue 82 Thompson catalogue:ll69a
Rev : ΑΘΕ ethnic
Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora
on which month mark Θ control ΔI below
2 magistrates : ARCHITIMOS DEMETRI
RF symbol : Isis
All surrounded by an olive wreath

Athens New Style Tetradrachm c82/1 BC
Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet
29 mm 16.82 gm Thompson issue 83 Thompson catalogue: Obs 1183 Rev: not in plates/ NEW
Rev : ΑΘΕ ethnic
Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora
on which month mark K control ΔI below
2 magistrates : LYSANDROS OINOPHILOS
RF symbol : Poppy Head between 2 Grain Ears
All surrounded by an olive wreath

Athens New Style Tetradrachm c80/9 BC IMITATION
bs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet
29mm 16.04gm Thompson (new) issue 85
Thompson catalogue: IMITATION 1419ba
Rev : ΑΘΕ ethnic
Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora on
which month mark Α control ΔΙ below
2 magistrates : EUMELOS THEOXENID(E)S
RF symbol : Ares
All within a surrounding olive wreath

Athens New Style Tetradrachm c79/8 BC
Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet
30 mm 16.60 gm Thompson issue 86 Thompson catalogue: Obs 1217 Rev: New/Not in plates?
Rev : ΑΘΕ ethnic
Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora
on which month mark ? control ? below
2 magistrates : NESTOR MNASEAS
RF symbol : Stag
All surrounded by an olive wreath

Athens New Style Tetradrachm c 47 BC
Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet with tr-partite earings
27mm 17.04gm Thompson (new) issue 105
Thompson catalogue: Obs: I260 Rev:NEW
Rev : ΑΘΕ ethnic
Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora on
which month mark A: control ΣΩ below
2 magistrates : DIOKLES TO DEY MEDEIOS
RF symbol : Hygieia
All within a surrounding olive wreath

 

@NewStyleKing.......Super coins!,,,,Really like the C82 and C83 Nice detail!

 

My one, sad little owl
Mn. Cordius Rufus, 46 BC

 

Fun idea for a thread!


Attica. Athens
AR Tetradrachm, struck ca. 167-8 BC
Dia.: 30 mm
Wt.: 16.78
Obv.:Head of Athena right wearing triple crested attic helmet adorned with Pegasos
Rev.: Α-ΘΕ above MI / KI and ΘΕΟ / ΦΡΑ (Miki[on] and Theophra[stos]) Owl standing facing on amphora Θ, AP below.
Ref.: Thompson 320g


Attica Athens
AR tetradrachm, Athens mint, struck ca. 454 - 404 BC
Dia.: 24 mm
Wt.: 17.10 g
Obv.: Head of Athena right wearing created attic helmet with three olive leaves above visor and five pronged palmette, round earring with central boss, frontal eye
Rev.: ΑΘΕ; owl standing right with head facing, olive sprig and crescent to left
Ref.: Kroll 8, SNG Copenhagen 31

 

T 320. I can see a pegasus on the upturned ear flap can you see one on yours or has it worn off?

 

There is definitely a design that could be a Pegasus. My example is not clear enough to tell for sure. Interesting observation. I never noticed it before.

I might try and take a macro photo of the ear flap and see if I can get a better look.

 

Great Idea - Owl Sunday. I have a few, some on coins - The first one is a post card I bought recently.


The next one is a knitting marker from my wife's supplies. The sign is from Rice U just before they went from almost closed to closed last year.

 

Hi All,

Unlisted in Svoronos. For die study see EA Carlen & CC Lorber: Silver Coinage from the Co-regency of Ptolemy VI and VIII (INR vol 13, pp 3-33, 2018). This coin is pl 5, #6.

Image: Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 29 (11 May 2005) Lot #238 listed as "Ptolemy IV Philopator, 221-205 No 238." See https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=222012 [07 Feb 2021] weight recorded there as 14.12 g. From the sale catalog: "After years of mint inactivity, coinage resumed on Cyprus about 192 BC as part of a policy to have the island take over the functions of the lost province of Syria and Phoenicia. Like most of the former Syro-Phoenician coinage, the new Cypriote coinage was dated. Mørkholm and Kromann did not record a Salaminian tetradrachm issue for year 5 of the joint reign of Ptolemy VI and VIII. The portrait of Ptolemy Soter on this tetradrachm is of the finest idealizing style of Cyprus."

- Broucheion

 

AN OWL-ETTE


Tyre
5th-4th BCE
1/16 AR Shekel
10mm 0.47g
Hippocamp left over waves -
Owl with Crook & Flail
Sear Greek 5916.BMC Tyre 43

 

Great owls everyone. I love the clever word play for the thread.
I have several, mainly on Magna Graecia drachms. Here are two of my favorites:

Lucania, Metapontion
AR drachm 325-275 BC 3.16 gm, 15 mm
O: owl standing slightly right, head facing; olive branch to right
R: barley ear with leaf to right; kerykeion above leaf
Johnston Class F, 1.2 = SNG Lloyd 396 (same dies); HN Italy 1611


Sicily, Syracuse Hieron II
AR 1-1/2 litrae 216-214 BC 1.05 gm, 12 mm
O: head Artemis right
R: owl standing slightly right
HGC Sicily 1424; CCO 308 (O2/R2)
What big eyes on the Syracuse coin!

 

Been just loving this thread RC
You always do know how to put on a show and a great pun if I do say so
Here's my super bowel coin:

L. Mussidius Longus
42 BC. RomeFoureé Denarius AR16mm., 3,02g.
Radiate and draped bust of Sol facing slightly right / The shrine of Venus Cloacina; a low circular platform surmounted by two statues of the goddess, each resting right hand on cippus, the platform inscribed CLOAC and ornamented with trellis-pattern balustrade, with flight of steps and portico on left; L•MVSSIDIVS•LONGVS around above.
nearly very fine
Crawford 494/43b. Former Savoca



Oh, a superb owllllll. Yes. I've one I don't post often. He's hiding in the top right corner

 

LOL, POOOOP Jokes??? CRIPES, You be playin' racketball in the gutter!

Sol is embarrassed and hiding face...

RR Mussidius Longus 42 BCE AR Den Rad Sol Platform CLOACIN S 494 Cr494-42

 

OK - I’ll play the bad pun game also!

 

Nice owls. Here are 2 of mine. Need to pickup a new style sometime in the future.

 

@NewStyleKing thanks so much for helping me clear up my confusion regarding the post-Sullan coinage! I am looking forward to learning more of the newer dating, it's making a lot more sense to me now. Only having modest familiarity with the series, I may have had one or two long ago & not realized it, so I may even need to update my archive of sold coins with corrections (e.g. a Thompson 619b, which I had as 119-118BC; and a Thompson 785b, which I notice I already corrected from Gitbud-Naumann's 137/6 BC to 107/6BC, lol).

Here's the only other "New Style" in currently in my collection. I got it from HJB 208. It was noted as Ex-Tom Cederlind, but I also managed to track down two more links in the pedigree to M&M (2014) & Gorny (1994):


Here's their coin-in-hand video on Vimeo (naturally, more impressive that way, also their model's fingernails look better than mine!).

Attica, Athens. "New Style Coinage" AR Tetradrachm (16.73g, 32mm, 6h). Magistrates Ktesi- [ΚΤΗΣΙ-] and Eyma- / Euma- [ΕΥΜΑΧΟΣ (Eumachos)], struck BC 139 – 138.
Obverse: Head of Athena to right, wearing necklace, pendent earring, and triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with vine scroll, Pegasus above upturned cheek flap, protomes of (four?) horses on visor.
Reverse: Owl standing r. on amphora, head front; ethnic and magistrates' names l. and r., in r. field Nike advancing r. holding out wreath with both hands; ΠP in lower l. field, letter on amphora illegible; all within olive wreath.
References: Thompson 275. Cf. Thompson 274f (Ktsei-, Euma-); HGC 4, 1602.
Pedigree: Ex-Harlan J Berk 208th Bid or Buy Sale, #77 (Stephen Corn Collection; Chicago, 5 September 2019); Ex-Tom Cederlind (August 2014); Ex-Münzen und Medaillen Auction 40, Lot 196 (Munich, 4 June 2014), Ex-Giessener Münzhandlung Dieter Gorny GmbH Auction 67, Lot 161 (Munich, 2 May 1994)​

 

That's a superb example!

 

This is a strange holiday that I don't fully understand but, like a good American, I've tried to participate. I gather from the behavior I've seen at the stores of people buying far more wings and alcohol than they can possibly eat that we must be sacrificing these items to the Superb Owl, so accordingly I have presented it with chicken wings and my finest whisky. What next? How will I know if it worked?