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<p>[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4973786, member: 111037"]I am not a professional numismatist and I only started collecting ancients recently, but I have to say that I find that explanation really unlikely too. The Tarantines started using owls before their downfall while they were still a big power so there was no reason to try to reclaim any glory. And there was no reason to mimic Athens either as Athens had stopped being a power of any sort many decades before with the plague and the Peloponnesian defeat. The explanation of it being some sort of acknowledgement of the increased relations with Pyrrhus and Epirus seems more likely.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don't want to sound Victorian, but I actually prefer goose. Nice gamey and juicy taste, and you would have to be a really bad cook for it to turn out dry and overcooked.. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4973786, member: 111037"]I am not a professional numismatist and I only started collecting ancients recently, but I have to say that I find that explanation really unlikely too. The Tarantines started using owls before their downfall while they were still a big power so there was no reason to try to reclaim any glory. And there was no reason to mimic Athens either as Athens had stopped being a power of any sort many decades before with the plague and the Peloponnesian defeat. The explanation of it being some sort of acknowledgement of the increased relations with Pyrrhus and Epirus seems more likely. I don't want to sound Victorian, but I actually prefer goose. Nice gamey and juicy taste, and you would have to be a really bad cook for it to turn out dry and overcooked.. :facepalm:[/QUOTE]
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