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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 20383494, member: 128351&quot;]These dies are more than close, it&#039;s definitely a double die-link. No doubt! </p><p><br /></p><p>Both coins circulated in the Near-East, for countermarks are extremely frequent in near-eastern hoards, but not in Greek or Sicilian hoards. We can state that countermarks were struck in Egypt (there are hieroglyphic countermarks), Arabia (there is an Arabian K countermark), Syria-Phoenicia (there are Phoenician letters countermarks), Cyprus (there is at least one Cypriot syllabary countermark). Of course most are simple designs that cannot be attributed to a particular zone. </p><p><br /></p><p>Being struck on folded flans, your two die-linked owls must be <i>bona fide</i> Athenian tetradrachms of the Pi II style, minted c. 353 BC in the great restrike. I would think the exceptionally elegant classical style of the obverse is a reminiscence of the early 4th c. owls classical style, like those from the Lentini hoard dated 390s-360s BC. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1540655[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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