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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 14365872, member: 128351&quot;]in this hoard there are also many early 4th c. Attic owls, which can be called &quot;Lentini types&quot;. They are the earliest issues with Athena&#039;s eye seen from profile, and have a Greek classical style. These coins have been also found in Sicilian hoards like the Lentini hoard, which can be dated (thanks to Sicilian issues in the same hoards) to the 390s-380s. These coins are struck on cast flans, most of them were melted in Athens in 353 and re-struck on folded flans as pi-styles. This is why they are so rare and found only far from Athens, in Sicily or the Levant:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1531663[/ATTACH] </p><p>another one :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1531664[/ATTACH] </p><p>another one:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1531665[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>... and there are pi-styles, struck on folded flans after 353 BC, like this one:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1531666[/ATTACH] </p><p>or this one:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1531667[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>... and a few imitative owls on large flans (in near mint condition) I&#039;d like to attribute to Egypt just before it was re-taken by the Persians in 343, like this one: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1531668[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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