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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7916089, member: 118780&quot;]Athens besieged and conquered Aegina, then forced the Aeginans to resettle elsewhere, where many of them were slaughtered. By the time Sparta let them come back after the end of the Peleponnesian War, they were a tiny fraction of their previous glory.</p><p><br /></p><p>From what I&#039;ve read, there&#039;s no widely accepted reason why they switched from a sea turtle to a land tortoise. Some guesses I&#039;ve wondered:</p><ul> <li>Athens forced them to stop minting sea turtles, which competed with their owls. Aegina snuck around this by using a land tortoise. I kind of doubt Athens was in a position to do this after losing the war, but maybe.</li> <li>Aegina felt for some reason the sea turtle had caused them bad luck.</li> <li>They wanted their coins to be prettier, and when an engraver showed them the land tortoise, they really liked it.</li> <li>Something to do with Jack Sparrow&#039;s story about sea turtles.</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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