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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nemo, post: 3081504, member: 58462&quot;]As I mentioned above, I know very, very little about this type.&nbsp; However, I think it is a folded flan from the appearance and based on the location of the ethnic.&nbsp; Here is a quote from Kroll&#039;s article, and a link, on the type:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Although they have always been visible—hiding, in effect, in plain sight—the two diagnostic features of the pi tetradrachms that lead to a solution have been noticed only in the past few years. The first of these is the changed position of the alpha on the coins’ reverses. On all earlier owl tetradrachms (Figs. 2, 4) the ΑΘΕ ethnic begins higher, at the side of the owl’s head, with the alpha’s left diagonal touching the head at eye level. On the pi-style owls, the alpha is positioned below the head, its left diagonal wedged in the notch where the head meets the body,15 thus permitting every pi-style tetradrachm to be distinguished from earlier specimens of the same denomination instantaneously.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/hesperia/hesperia.80.2.0229.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/hesperia/hesperia.80.2.0229.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/hesperia/hesperia.80.2.0229.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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