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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 26231397, member: 128351&quot;]There was a hoard of hundreds of Attic owls discovered in 2010 in Rafah (Gaza strip). It contained several kinds of owls. Here are some examples : </p><p><br /></p><p>Athens (?), probably <i>bona fide</i> Attic owl of the late 5th c. BC : </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1675355[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Egypt, Buttrey-A type. </p><p>These owls are mostly found in Egypt and must have been minted there in the last years of the 5th c. and the beginning of the 4th c., because Athenian production was interrupted since 412. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1675356[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Egypt (?), Buttrey-Flament X type, mid-4th c. BC (?). </p><p>The palmette (on the helmet) seems influenced by the Pi-style. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1675357[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Athens, &quot;Lentini&quot; type, early 4th c. BC. </p><p>The portrait of Athena is executed in a more realistic manner, closer to the standards of classical Greek art. The eye is seen from profile and the coin is struck on a cast flan, as usual. This kind of Attic owl is rare because most of the owls produced in the 1st half of the 4th c. were recalled in 353 to the Athens mint, folded and re-struck. Of course the coins that had already been hoarded, or who circulated far from Athens, were not re-struck. A hoard found in Lentini, Sicily, and well dated by other coins to the beginning of the 4th c., contained several examples of these Attic owls. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1675358[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably Athens, 1st half of the 4th c. BC. </p><p>A little less elegant than the &quot;Lentini&quot; types, there owls are still struck on cast flans. They pre-date the great restriking of 353.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1675359[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Athens, Pi III-IV type. </p><p>In 353 an Athenian law recalled all tetradrachms in circulation to the city mint. The coins were heated, folded, hammered, and restruck with dies of a new style. This specimen is truck on a folded flan. The palmette looks like the letter pi (π), this is why it&#039;s called &quot;pi-style&quot;. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1675360[/ATTACH]&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>imitation (from Egypt or some other place in the Middle East). This coin imitates the Pi-III - IV style, but is struck on a beautiful round cast flan. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1675363[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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