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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Napata, post: 2984001, member: 76197&quot;]When we think of the Athenian owl, the chunky tetradrachm displaying both Athena in the Attic helmet and the facing owl comes to mind.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fractions of the same type of coin do exist, but seem to have flimsy attributions attached to them.</p><p><b><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></b></p><p><b><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">From Athens...</span></font></b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3577714" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3577714" rel="nofollow">Example A</a></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/dUBpk4a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3206036" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3206036" rel="nofollow">Example B</a></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/HYReAny.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><b>From Philistia... (contemporary imitations).</b></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4603696" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4603696" rel="nofollow">Example C</a></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/fb6zO2S.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3684408" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3684408" rel="nofollow">Example D </a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/gVd3TJl.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>To be frank, I cannot see what makes them different. They all look crude and the imitative ones do not bear clear legends or features that make them distinguishable.</p><p>The weight itself does not seem to be a characteristic too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously, there are always chances of lazy attribution or pumping coin&#039;s rarity up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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