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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 3909062, member: 104887&quot;][ATTACH=full]1030273[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>OBV:</b> Athena head facing right in crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl. Plain border.</p><p><b>REV:</b> Owl standing, wings closed facing right. In upper left field, olive twig and crescent moon; In right field: ΑΘΕ, reading downwards. All within incuse square. Plain border.</p><p><b>Size:</b> 25x27 mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> NGC didn&#039;t bother, oh well <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Axis:</b> 2:00 hrs</p><p><b>Appearance:</b> Buttrey style X. Reverse: Countermark of Pharaoh or Horus wearing atef headdress and facing right while standing on solar barque. NGC 428 1282-014, graded as &quot;Ch F&quot;,</p><p><br /></p><p>Note the countermark on the reverse. That&#039;s the only reason I bought the coin. To me it looks like a pharaoh in a solar barque. Here it is rotated 90 degrees clockwise (the dots are the owl&#039;s chest (breast?) feathers). This c/m reinforces the Egyptian nature of the coin. At least, it probably visited Egypt if it was not born there.</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1030274[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn&#039;t find an exact match for a pharaoh in a solar barque but this is similar, except for the outstretched arm and head turned back.</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1030277[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>General comments on Imitative Owls:</p><p>Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia in &quot;Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East&quot;: &quot;The first coins mentioned in Egyptian texts were staters, i.e. Athenian tetradrachms, at the end of the 5th century BC; sometimes they are specified as &#039;str n Wjnn&#039;, Ionian staters. For the first time they appear on a Demotic ostracon from the year 13 of Darius II, that is 412 BC, from Ain Manawir near Dus in the south of Kharga oasis (Chauveau 2012).&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Van Alfen (2011): &quot;As the hoard evidence indicates, Egypt was the largest and most important market for Athenian owls in the classical period. It stands to reason that Egypt would also then be the largest producer of imitative owls, beginning probably in the last quarter of the fifth century and continuing until Alexander’s conquest. With only a couple of exceptions, coin production in Egypt before the Macedonians focused on imitative owls. Perhaps the largest, most important, and yet least understood series of imitative owls are those first identified by Theodore Buttrey in two brief papers (Buttrey 1982, 1984) discussing coins from the Fayum hoard (CH X-442). Buttrey argued that his types B, X and M (randomly assigned designators) were not produced by the Athenians, but rather by the Egyptians, most likely under official supervision in Memphis.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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