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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8344392, member: 118780&quot;]That&#039;s a very nice coin! I&#039;m no owl expert either, but from what I can tell I concur with your attribution of Mazakes. That&#039;s a very nice find and I admit I&#039;m a bit jelly-belly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have a Mazakes example, though I do have one of his predecessor, Sabakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1480031[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Egypt, Achaemenid Province. Sabakes, satrap, AR Tetradrachm. Circa 340-333 BC.</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">16.61g, 25mm, 9h.</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing to right with head facing, olive sprig with berry and crescent in upper left field; uncertain letters to left, &quot;Sabakes symbol&quot; and SWYK (in Aramaic) to right.</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Van Alfen Type III, 24-34 var. (O11/R- [unlisted rev. die]); Nicolet-Pierre, Monnaies 18-26 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 4 var. (no letters on left of rev.); BMC 265 var. (same).</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Roma</font></font></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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