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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 4615570, member: 74834&quot;]Searching for an explanation of the double-bodied owl, I found this old thread where one of our legendary old members asked Dane Kurth of Wildwinds for an explanation. From the title of the thread alone, you may know who authored it: </p><p><i><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-are-two-bodies-better-than-one-hooo-hooo.242609/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-are-two-bodies-better-than-one-hooo-hooo.242609/">Are Two Bodies better than One? =&gt; Hooo-Hooo!!</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently, the double owls of <a href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/troas/sigeon/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/troas/sigeon/t.html" rel="nofollow">Sigeon</a> (on the western coast of Asia Minor) were first issued by the military commander <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chares_of_Athens" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chares_of_Athens" rel="nofollow">Chares of Athens</a> (active from about 367-330 BC), who was very capable, but apparently also rather greedy and given to changing sides: powerful and capricious, a dangerous combination. </p><p><br /></p><p>His preferred residence was the town of Sigeon. He had an owl as a personal emblem, and to stress his adherence to the city of Athens (that commissioned him often) he issued coins to show the affinity of Sigeon to Athens by showing two owls with one head - that of Chares obviously.</p><p><br /></p><p>I tried to find the article in Italian mentioned by Dane Kurth on Academia, on JSTOR and on Google by using words translated into Italian, like &#039;Carete&#039;, &#039;Sigeo&#039;, &#039;Atene&#039; and &#039;gufo&#039;, but to no avail. Probably there is some old book where this is properly explained. But I haven&#039;t found it yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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