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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5277308, member: 110350"][USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER], according to Reid Goldsborough, "Flament divided Mass Owls into three groups, c. 460-440 BC, c. 440-420 BC, and c. 420-404 BC, based on style, not die, analysis." See <a href="https://rg.ancients.info/owls/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rg.ancients.info/owls/" rel="nofollow">https://rg.ancients.info/owls/</a>. But there are many subgroups, so the classification definitely gets very specific. See this post by [USER=86498]@Terence Cheesman[/USER] some months ago, kindly identifying the Flament subgroups (differing for the obverse and reverse) to which my own Owl coin, and [USER=110226]@robinjojo[/USER]'s, belong:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Robinjojo coin looks to me to be a Flament group II most likely a II.4 obverse and a II b reverse. Donna ML is also a Group II Most likely a Flament Group II. 40. Hers has a rather unusual arrangement of the palmet as well as the narrow eye of that group. The reverse is a bit more of a problem but it looks like a II q My last coin is this one. It has a Group III obverse and is likely done by the same hand as the Group III coin I had posted above But it has a Group II reverse."</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/in-search-of-a-starr-group-v-owl.359796/page-3#post-4506311" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/in-search-of-a-starr-group-v-owl.359796/page-3#post-4506311">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/in-search-of-a-starr-group-v-owl.359796/page-3#post-4506311</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5277308, member: 110350"][USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER], according to Reid Goldsborough, "Flament divided Mass Owls into three groups, c. 460-440 BC, c. 440-420 BC, and c. 420-404 BC, based on style, not die, analysis." See [URL]https://rg.ancients.info/owls/[/URL]. But there are many subgroups, so the classification definitely gets very specific. See this post by [USER=86498]@Terence Cheesman[/USER] some months ago, kindly identifying the Flament subgroups (differing for the obverse and reverse) to which my own Owl coin, and [USER=110226]@robinjojo[/USER]'s, belong: "Robinjojo coin looks to me to be a Flament group II most likely a II.4 obverse and a II b reverse. Donna ML is also a Group II Most likely a Flament Group II. 40. Hers has a rather unusual arrangement of the palmet as well as the narrow eye of that group. The reverse is a bit more of a problem but it looks like a II q My last coin is this one. It has a Group III obverse and is likely done by the same hand as the Group III coin I had posted above But it has a Group II reverse." [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/in-search-of-a-starr-group-v-owl.359796/page-3#post-4506311[/URL][/QUOTE]
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