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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 7836477, member: 110226&quot;]I do have a pipeline of owls, one that has been around for while now.&nbsp; In recent years I have tried to concentrate on the imitative owls, since they are relatively a field that is new when compared to the literature on Athenian owls. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am house sitting this week, on a friend&#039;s lap top, so I don&#039;t have access to my photos on the hard drive of my PC at home.&nbsp; I am very old school in this respect.&nbsp; I don&#039;t even own a smart phone or iPhone.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, here are images from the seller of an imitative type recently purchased from an Israeli dealer.&nbsp; Other owls purchased from him have a West Bank or Jordan origin, so I suspect this all applies to the owl pictured below. Syria seems to be another source for these imitative owls, as well as some Athenian owls, both classical style and intermediate style.&nbsp; I have not seen any new style owls offered from these sources.</p><p><br /></p><p>This particular coin weighs 16.8 grams.&nbsp; Once the coin arrives I will take better images of it.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/rXQAAOSwo~9hF~ZH/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/CI0AAOSwXaxhF~Y2/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This example is a very good approximation of an Athenian owl, but stylistically the obverse profile strongly suggests an origin in the Levant, probably one of the mints in Philistia that operated in the 5&#039;th and 4&#039;th centuries BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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