My Owl's bigger than your Owl

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by Dougmeister, Apr 1, 2016.

  1. Dougmeister

    Dougmeister Well-Known Member

    Picked this beast up at the Whitman Show in Baltimore today.

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  3. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

  4. Ardatirion

    Ardatirion Où est mon poisson

  5. ancientcoinguru

    ancientcoinguru Well-Known Member

    Nice coin! How much does it weigh?
     
  6. spirityoda

    spirityoda Coin Junky

    I had no idea ancients coin were that huge. :jawdrop:
     
  7. Paul M.

    Paul M. Well-Known Member

    Mine's bigger...
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  8. Carthago

    Carthago Does this look infected to you?

    That's a whole lotta owl for the money.
     
  9. chrsmat71

    chrsmat71 I LIKE TURTLES!

  10. brandon spiegel

    brandon spiegel Brandon Spiegel

    thats awesome!!!, why does the sticker say caca insted of cac?


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  11. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

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  12. David Atherton

    David Atherton Flavian Fanatic

    I don't know, there are some pretty big owls out there.


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  13. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

    ahahahaha => Ardy, I loved your owl video

    "True Facts About The Owl" ... I actually laughed out loud a couple of times!!


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  14. Jwt708

    Jwt708 Well-Known Member

    Oh that owl video was good!

    "Don't do drugs or an owl might rip your face off."
     
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  15. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    Sweet! Are you selling it? It would look awesome in my owl denomination set:

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    ;)

    All of zefrank's True Facts offerings are hilarious :). I particularly like the mantis shrimp and octopus videos.

    The OP's post is a fun photoshop joke but there actually are some ancient coins of that size and larger. Some Roman Republic aes grave are huge:

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    Last edited: Apr 2, 2016
  16. Dougmeister

    Dougmeister Well-Known Member

    Yeah, my late-night attempt at an April Fool's joke. Hope I didn't upset too many people with this one. ;-)
     
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  17. THCoins

    THCoins Well-Known Member

    I just have a Huge elephant:
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  18. Mikey Zee

    Mikey Zee Delenda Est Carthago

    LOL Well, you had my jaw drop there for a while LOL
     
  19. brandon spiegel

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  20. brandon spiegel

    brandon spiegel Brandon Spiegel

    I purchased my second and thirc ancient coins today =) (i have always been into us coins before hand)
     
  21. Jwt708

    Jwt708 Well-Known Member

    Pictures?
     
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