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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8205499, member: 110226&quot;]Nice coin!&nbsp; Yes your owl looks like a pi-style V.&nbsp; There are nuances that distinguish some pi-styles from one another, that can be challenging for attribution.&nbsp; The flan folds are very pronounced with your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think flan folding was rather widespread, beyond Athens.&nbsp; As for the question of simply melting the coins and starting with fresh flans, my only guess is that the folding process skips this step.&nbsp; I would assume that the heating, hammering, folding could be done quickly, even if it is repeated.&nbsp; If time was crucial, then it would be a simple matter to heat the flan up one more time and administer the final striking of the reverse (hammer) and obverse (anvil) dies.&nbsp; The haphazard way these coin were struck on these irregular flan seems to indicate the emphasis of quantity over quality.</p><p><br /></p><p>I said that I think folded flans were used elsewhere to produce owls.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a coin that I recently received.&nbsp; It is in the style of a classical owl, but I think it was made elsewhere, not only due to some stylistic aspects, such as the crude palmette, but also due to evidence that this coin was struck on a folded flan.</p><p><br /></p><p>16.87 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438402[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438403[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If we assume that classical owls were struck on new flans, the folds on the edge of this classical style owl points to a non-Athenian origin.&nbsp; There are more folds on this coin&#039;s edge, but they are somewhat less deep and smaller.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, is it possible that the Athenian Mint, in the 5th century BC used folded flans, perhaps towards the end of that century?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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