The owl of my childhood dreams

No, UK dealer at London fair. Maybe he got it from NC!

 

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Beautiful!

 

That is an owl to be proud of!

Nicer by a long shot than my modest example:

 

I like the more archaic style of yours. Mine is lonely. He'd love to have a few more in different styles to keep him company. It's interesting how the style is picked up in some much later Roman Republican coins.

 

that's a top shelf example, worth the wait!

 

Great coin @Nerva . Welcome.
I like that your reverse is all on the flan and not chopped (like mine). I think it is interesting that people who handled these coins 2000+ years ago respected Athena enough that test cuts were on the reverse, but it is really hard to find a full Athena obverse.

 

Welcome @Nerva ! Nice opening... great Owl! Would had expected you to open with a Nerva!

My Owls are well circulated, and well proven by the bankers! I KNOW they are real!

 

Lovely coin! A real museum piece!

 

What a wonderful group. I think the banker's marks and test cuts add character, and I want to get a small group of these. I like mixing a few really good coins with some more characterful specimens.

 

They are some of the first Ancients that I captured. I like that the bankers marks are even on Athena's face. Ergo, they probly travelled outside the Greek world in their transactions...

 

It's interesting to see all the variations of owls and banker's marks. Lots of good examples here! I just purchased this "classical" owl. Opinions?

 

A great-looking example, particularly the reverse, with excellent centering on both sides

 

THank you. I love your avatar coin!

 

Once again I find I have to agree with @TIF. Your owl @Carl Wilmont is extremely nice.

 

Excellent example of the most popular Classical style. It would sell for a bit more if it had a bit more room on the top showing all the crest but gaining that usually comes at the expense of crowding the nose or the bottom. The owl side is close enough to perfect to suit most everyone.

I see it has been a couple years since you were last here. What is the next coin in your quest?

 

Only one owl here for me

 

Thanks for the comments, TIF, Bing, and Doug! When I was searching for one of these coins, I did decide to compromise on the crest on the obverse if I could get the rest of the profile and a good reverse.

I've not posted recently, but am still reading and absorbing learnings from experts here. Great on-line community! Hope to be able to contribute more as I gain knowledge. One of the things that I recently learned about as I read some old posts is "tooling." As I expand my collection, I am trying to build some recognition of that. I also looked at examples of the results of this practice at the excellent forum ancient coins site. Lots to watch out for as a collector- authenticity, pricing, tooling/smoothing, etc. In addition to learning from folks like yourselves, I have been building a library of books on ancient coins (I have 18 so far). That's another piece of advice that I may have seen on this forum- buy the book before you buy the coin.

Doug, my focus remains on coins related to Bible times. I have several Judean and first century Roman coins. I'm working on getting some coins associated with places that Paul traveled as well. I stretched my typical budget for this tetradrachm, and two of the next coins in my quest are also pricey ones: a coin of Herod Antipas and a shekel of Tyre.

 

That's also a nice, well-centered coin! Is this one from the Hellenistic period?

 

Man ... owls are so cool, eh?



=> congrats to all of the coin-owl examples (coins are awesome)

*edit* ... thread-timing is everything, eh?

=> Carl Wilmont => Godspeed