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Message:: [QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4761398, member: 85693"]Sorry to hear about the "cast fake" diagnosis. Whenever something like this turns up, I am puzzled.  Cast from what?  I wonder.  Obviously it is not a fake Athenian tetradrachm - these get faked all the time, but why fake one with a circumferential Greek inscription and a completely wrong obverse?  This is so far off from an Athenian tet that I doubt it would pass as a "tourist fake." Which is to say it is still interesting, and not a typical fake (if that's any comfort).  Owls were used a lot in antiquity - an acsearch "owl ae" pulls up 978 hits, with some interesting owls from Kamarina in Sicily that look more like the OP than an Athenian tet. <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=owl+ae&category=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0&currency=usd&company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=owl+ae&category=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0&currency=usd&company=" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=owl+ae&category=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0&currency=usd&company=</a>[/QUOTE]