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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 4604499, member: 56859"]Fantastic coin, [USER=17304]@kazuma78[/USER]! Great score <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I'd love to have one of these double-bodied owls, especially one in as good condition as yours!</p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p>My mass emission owl tet:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/owltet-rt_edited-jpg.1038847/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3"><b>ATTICA, Athens</b></font></p><p><font size="3">c. 454-404 BCE</font></p><p><font size="3">AR tetradrachm; 17.21 gm, ~25 mm</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv: head of Athena right, with frontal eye</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev: owl standing right, head facing, closed tail feathers; olive sprig and crescent to left; AΘE downward in right field; all within incuse square</font></p><p><font size="3">Removed from an NGC slab; AU 5/5 strike, 3/5 surfaces, "Parliament Collection"</font></p><p><font size="3">Ref: I really don't know. There are so many catalogs and types and I have no idea how nitpicky various catalogers are. Reid Goldsborough noted that David Sear said there were so many owl tets that in all his years he's never seen a die matched pair! Suffice it to say that this coin is authentic and it is from the "mass emission" period... a "classical owl tet".</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 4604499, member: 56859"]Fantastic coin, [USER=17304]@kazuma78[/USER]! Great score :) I'd love to have one of these double-bodied owls, especially one in as good condition as yours! ... My mass emission owl tet: [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/owltet-rt_edited-jpg.1038847/[/IMG] [SIZE=3][B]ATTICA, Athens[/B] c. 454-404 BCE AR tetradrachm; 17.21 gm, ~25 mm Obv: head of Athena right, with frontal eye Rev: owl standing right, head facing, closed tail feathers; olive sprig and crescent to left; AΘE downward in right field; all within incuse square Removed from an NGC slab; AU 5/5 strike, 3/5 surfaces, "Parliament Collection" Ref: I really don't know. There are so many catalogs and types and I have no idea how nitpicky various catalogers are. Reid Goldsborough noted that David Sear said there were so many owl tets that in all his years he's never seen a die matched pair! Suffice it to say that this coin is authentic and it is from the "mass emission" period... a "classical owl tet".[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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