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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 654798, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Copper Owls?</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>The funny thing is that we really would like to find some of these &quot;copper owls.&quot;&nbsp; It would solve some problems.&nbsp; However, the coin shown above was not from ancient Athens.</p><p><br /></p><p>A short version of a longer work.</p><p><a href="http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/msns_owls.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/msns_owls.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/msns_owls.pdf</a></p><p>A longer version of the still-longer work</p><p><a href="http://www.coinpeople.com/index.php?showtopic=7154" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpeople.com/index.php?showtopic=7154" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpeople.com/index.php?showtopic=7154</a></p><p>Arguments against the thesis</p><p><a href="http://rg.ancients.info/owls/fourrees.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rg.ancients.info/owls/fourrees.html" rel="nofollow">http://rg.ancients.info/owls/fourrees.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I cite Reid Goldsborough&#039;s arguments against my thesis because his antithesis accepts the premise that there were no genuine official Copper Owls.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that there may have been, but we have never found any.&nbsp; One important fact to consider was offered by Jim Hauk. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>The Athenians knew better than to make coins identical except for metal because it would be easy to pass bronze for gold.&nbsp; Instead, Athenian coins always show small differences between series.&nbsp; The gold coins of Athens were not like the silver coins.&nbsp; We know that.&nbsp; So, if there were bronze owls, they would not look like silver owls in bronze.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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