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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8205914, member: 87809&quot;]Very nice Pi-Style owls. The OP owl is really something!</p><p><br /></p><p>My thick-flanned coin is likely an earlier variety, with remnants of an incuse square and a more refined owl. Later varieties show an owl with even coarser, more pronounced head and body feathers. </p><p><br /></p><p>Athens, Attica, late 4th or early 3rd century after 393 BC</p><p>20 x 25 mm, 17.184 g</p><p><br /></p><p>SNG Copenhagen 63; Kroll 15; SNG Delepierre 1469-1472; SNG München 91, SNG Lockett 1873, Dewing 1635; Sear 2537</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Head of Athena r., wearing helmet decorated with three olive leaves and a curling palmette. Hair in two even loops across brow and temple. Disc shaped earring. Beaded edge to nape of helmet.</p><p>Rev.: Athenian owl with olive spring and crescent moon to the left; Greek lettering ΑΘΕ at right</p><p><br /></p><p>The weight of this coin at 17.184 g corresponds to the Euboeic/Attic standard of 17.20 g for a tetradrachm. It is Pi-Style III as the lower tendrils are outward from the central tendril and originate from and are perpendicular to the curved horizontal line forming the upper tendrils; they parallel the central tendril for most of their length before flaring outward. The central tendril can be exceptionally long, extending down to Athena’s ear. Pi III may or may not have a pellet above the earring on the obverse and have one or two columns of pellets (feathers) to the right of the owl&#039;s beak on the reverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438500[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438501[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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