The Wise Old Owl!

If you collect coins with owls on them, I thought you might like to know many Greek and other ancient coins bore likenesses and caricarures of owls on them from miniature to almost full coin reverses.

Greek coins were the first to carry an animal on them, but the very first animal depicted was an owl.

The following coin pic is courtesy of about.com. You can see the goddess Athena wearing a battle helmet facing right and the reverse has a very well struck image of an owl on it.

The coin is a silver tetadracheme weighing 16.89 gms and was struck circa 449 B.C.

http://imagedb.coinarchives.com/img/ubs/064/00071q00.jpg

Do you own any coins (ancient to modern with owls on them? What are they?

Clinker

 

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I love that coin, I have a few. And congrats 500 POSTS!

well maybe a member of my family does

 

Clinker:
Thanks once again for your info, as usual, enlightening.
Also, congrats on the #500!

 

Neat Clinker. In fact, looks like the same owl here...

 

lol cool looking birds

 

Greek paper money also as this design and some others from ancient Greece.

 

Clinker,the Greek 1 Euro coin depicts an ancient Athenian Tetradrachm,which depicts an owl on it.

Aidan.

 

Thanks....everyone for reading, commenting and for congrats on my 500yh posting of which I absolutely didn't realize....You guys and a few others are the reason so many postings have happened. hope I can do 500 more!

Clinker

 

More owls!

 

Slu, that note is AWSOME.. very very cool!!!

umm .. i cant read it... mind telling where its from?

 

Oh, I probably should have labeled all those. I actually got all the images from this website. Here is what they said about that note:

EDIT: Found them on eBay for $7: HERE

 

Nice owl tetradrachm !

 

Thanks....and that same owl rendition, as you can see from some of the other images shared in other re[lies, was used on many Greek coins through the years...

Clinker