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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 2012455, member: 57463&quot;]Let me try with the one issue I know best of the three, the Athena/Owl. First, the coin weighs too much. A tetradrachm would weigh about 17 grams.&nbsp; Yours is like a silver dollar with a half dollar image.&nbsp; The Athena in the later archaic or pre-classical style does not match the owl with the open wings.&nbsp; Of the owls with the open wings, the letters A TH E are not the positions of your example.&nbsp; The large &quot;terrified eyes&quot; of the owl match a much later style, after 400 BCE, after Athens lost the Peloponnesian war, suffered plagues, and internal slaughters as well. Earlier owls that match the older style Athena have open eyes without the rays (feathers) sticking out radially.&nbsp; Your Athena&#039;s hair comes down too far below the helmet.&nbsp; Also, it is in the archaic style of other cities. It matches perhaps a Sicilian city more.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, if someone showed you a 1957 Chevy with a Ford name plate, how would you prove <b>in words</b> that the style was not at all a Ford?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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