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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8327530, member: 110226&quot;]Beautiful owl!&nbsp; It is hard to resist acquiring at least one of these iconic ancient coins, to be sure!</p><p><br /></p><p>As a collector of US coins, I am sure that you see connections in some of the designs and themes that appear on them with those on ancient coins.&nbsp; I see collecting ancients as an extension of the US coins that I began collecting back the early 80s.&nbsp; Over the intervening period I moved to world coins to now almost totally ancients.&nbsp; It&#039;s all part of the journey that all of us take.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take, for example the magnificent $50 Panama-Pacific octagonal coin of 1915 (not mine!):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://images.pcgs.com/CoinFacts/21396879_93415186_800x800.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Photo Courtesy of PCGS</p><p><br /></p><p>Here we have Minerva (Athena) on the obverse and an owl on the reverse, very much like your owl.</p><p><br /></p><p>And what about the dolphins surrounding Minerva and the owl?&nbsp; They can be found on coins of Syracuse, as on this tetradrachm of the Deinomenid Tyranny, 480-475 BC:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1475878[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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