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Message:: [QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 26232465, member: 128351"]Solidus Numismatik (Munich) has lately auctioned 45 owls in Auctions 142 and 143. Some could be late 5th c. BC bona fide Attic issues, but most are Buttrey B types (with the palmette looking like a croix de Lorraine), likely minted in Egypt in the first half of the 4th c. BC. All have been circulated and have countermarks on Athena's cheek, sometimes on the reverse too. These owls were not expensive,  and many unsold. It is obvious that these so homogeneous 45 coins come from a recently found hoard. Because most of them are Buttrey B types, which are frequent in Egyptian hoards but rare in Greek hoards, it is likely that this hoard was found in Egypt or near Egypt (why not the Gaza strip?). The countermarks are interesting : in several cases similar ones have been noted on owls from other hoards, some found in Iraq. It is highly probable that this hoard contained more than these 45 owls. Is Solidus Numismatik preparing its Auction 144 including two more dozens of these coins? [ATTACH=full]1675449[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]