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Message:: [QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8083087, member: 118780"]Thanks! Funny thing about that owl - I hadn't planned to buy this one. I went for several other owls at the auction but kept losing. Then I saw this one come up and its minimum bid was twice that of the others, but it only had a minimum bid. So, last minute I bid one more than the minimum and got it! I still remember when I opened the box. To date it's the only one of my coins to ever impress my wife. Eventually, yes. Because of my collecting focus, I'd like to pick up an owl closer to the time of Alexander the Great. That's phase 2 of my collection, though, so not right now. I did pick up this imitative owl. [ATTACH=full]1404027[/ATTACH] Egypt, Achaemenid Province. Sabakes, satrap, AR Tetradrachm. Circa 340-333 BC.16.61g, 25mm, 9h.Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing to right with head facing, olive sprig with berry and crescent in upper left field; uncertain letters to left, "Sabakes symbol" and SWYK (in Aramaic) to right.Van Alfen Type III, 24-34 var. (O11/R- [unlisted rev. die]); Nicolet-Pierre, Monnaies 18-26 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 4 var. (no letters on left of rev.); BMC 265 var. (same). [/QUOTE]