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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 25326550, member: 10461"]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.)<img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/8NG8GQ3NRPuyidZJNNWJ_normal_ADAM-Ionia-Teos-AR-Trihemiobol-013500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> 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.)<img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/3ed419499d634e14a20182e1d4c79a9d.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> 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.)<img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/yoH38pnEToy93wZrSDHz_01-AncientGreece-Pontos-Amisos-ARdrachm-017341-coin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Greece (Corinth): silver stater; Pegasus and Athena, ca. 345-307 BC; control mark of Artemis Phosphoros with torch(NGC AU.  Also sold, and missed.)<img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/boZ1WaAGQvm8XJSLop1d_corinthian.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Greece (Thrace, Pantakapaion): bronze Æ21, ca. 310-303 BC(Another griffin.)<img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/BzGV4lmfShyBNSuRdM81_Pantikapaion-frame.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Greece (Spartans in Taras, Calabria, Italy): ca. 302-281 BC silver drachm(Yet another owl, and one of my favorite coins.)<img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/mNH9fUJLQZS5eLUegzbA_Taras-frame.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> 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.)<img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/kWwpEUjRJ2PoVgV8k32g_Sceat-800x400-gradient.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> France: silver jeton of Louis XV, "Aurora in cloud chariot", undated (ca. 1740)(More flying horsies, this time without wings.  PCGS AU58.)<img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/4hwy3z4eTEqAnLUxzinT_32657468_large.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> 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?)<img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/HXtAweDQSFGRe32zSfEc_85188591_1000x1000.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> 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.)<img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/PahBPKOTQ6ZHy1nB0J3w_Canada-G100-1978-067750-coin-800x500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Kazakhstan: 2019 copper-nickel gilt 200-tenge, Eagle Owl(Not all my owls are ancient!  This is an ultramodern, Borg-like robo-owl.)<img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/e41ca27da44349d28609433447060542.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> 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.)[/QUOTE]

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