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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nemo, post: 3203346, member: 58462&quot;]Ken, that is an awesome piece! I would love to have that in my collection!&nbsp; It looks like Athena has come alive and is hungry!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few owls as well. </p><p>Here&#039;s my favorite and I challenge anyone to show a coin that has less self-esteem!&nbsp; It appears everyone thought it was fake!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Classical (Old-Style), c. 454 - 404 B.C. Athens Owl Tetradrachm</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829572[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Athens, Greece, Pi-Style III Tetradrachm, 353 - c. 340 B.C</b></p><p>Unlike the customary flans of 5th and earlier 4th century Athenian tetradrachms that have solid, rounded edges from having been cast in a mold, these were struck on thick planchets made of flattened, folded-over, older tetradrachms. The flattened coins were not just folded in two but were folded over a second time to produce a planchet of three or four layers</p><p>[ATTACH=full]829576[/ATTACH] </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Eastern Imitation?</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]829573[/ATTACH] </b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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