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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 8302474, member: 86815&quot;]Welcome Adcono! </p><p>You&#039;ll find most folks here a friendly and eclectic bunch. I have learned so much from the sidelines over the years and everyone is generous sharing their knowledge.</p><p>I&#039;ve enjoyed the thread you started and thought I would share this. Not an academic response but interesting. We returned from a short vacation in Rhodes yesterday and whilst there I was given this coin in my change.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1469037[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1469038[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I thought it really fascinating that this symbol has continued to be used on a coin over two thousand years after its first use.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my Owl Tetradrachm, my only other Greek Coin. I collect Roman and British but wanted to own one of these iconic coins so deviated from my interests.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1469039[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1469040[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the two together for size comparison.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1469042[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, the Owl continues to be used on objects to this day and there is a plethora of them available as souvenirs as ornaments or printed on anything you can imagine as is the Mati or &quot;Evil Eye&quot; symbol. I collect fridge magnets on my travels and searched for an Owl Magnet but was unable to find what I wanted but killed two birds with one stone with this piece of tacky tourist bait.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1469044[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This segues nicely into &quot;Weird Al&quot; Yankovic.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]zq7Eki5EZ8o[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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