Flying Things that aren't Eagles . . . . .

You rang?

OK, I'll play. Some of these are sold coins from my past collections and some are present-day holdings.

Greece (Ionia, Teos): silver trihemiobol, ca. 500-450 BC
(A griffin. That's its wing near the edge of the coin.)



Greece (Attica): ca. 440-404 BC silver "Owl" tetradrachm of Athens
(After waiting decades, I finally own one of these. Got an amazing deal on it, too.)



Greece (Pontos, Amisos): silver drachm or siglos featuring Hera and owl, ca. late 400s-300s BC
(Looks rather more like a winged frog than an owl. Cool coin. Now sold, and missed.)



Greece (Corinth): silver stater; Pegasus and Athena, ca. 345-307 BC; control mark of Artemis Phosphoros with torch
(NGC AU. Also sold, and missed.)



Greece (Thrace, Pantakapaion): bronze Æ21, ca. 310-303 BC
(Another griffin.)



Greece (Spartans in Taras, Calabria, Italy): ca. 302-281 BC silver drachm
(Yet another owl, and one of my favorite coins.)



England (Anglo-Saxon): silver sceat, struck in Essex or East Anglia, ca. 685-700 AD
(Bird atop cross, inside a circled snake that's eating its own tail.)



France: silver jeton of Louis XV, "Aurora in cloud chariot", undated (ca. 1740)
(More flying horsies, this time without wings. PCGS AU58.)



Great Britain (Island of Lundy): bronze 1-puffin token issued by Martin Coles Harman, 1929
(PCGS MS65 RD- tied for the top pop. Puffins are cute, ain't they?)



Canada: proof gold 100-dollars of Elizabeth II, Canadian Unity commemorative, 1978
(This one has a goose for each province at the time. PCGS PR66 DCAM, ex-NGC PR67 UCAM. Now sold, though I got a different Canadian proof gold $100 piece.)


Kazakhstan: 2019 copper-nickel gilt 200-tenge, Eagle Owl
(Not all my owls are ancient! This is an ultramodern, Borg-like robo-owl.)


Not shown: I had some early aviation-related tokens and medals (Lindbergh and such), but can't find pics of them now. Also, there were other birds I didn't post because they're flightless birds. I was surprised I came up with four different types of (mostly-) flightless birds: ostrich, kiwi, flamingo, and peacock. (Well, maybe peacocks can fly, too- but I don't think they do a lot of it.)

 

Bird of Paradise, I'm pretty sure.