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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 7769391, member: 110226&quot;]While on the subject of transitional owls, I went back to reexamine one intermediate owl that I assumed was an imitation.&nbsp; Having obtained additional information from NumisWiki on the heterogeneous coinage of Athens in the third century BCE, I now think this coin is indeed Athenian in origin, and heterogeneous in style.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin fits into Group A of Christophe Flament&#039;s classification of this subgroup of intermediate owls.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>From the website: &quot;Group A - The owl has a much broader head and the bill is much less schematic than the on the quadridigité style.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Athens, 260-230 BCE</p><p>AR tetradrachm</p><p>17.23 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1332316[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As a heterogeneous tetradrachm, this coin retains some of the characteristics of the pi-style coinage, such as the owl and the palmette.&nbsp; It also foreshadows the portrait style of the &quot;new style&quot; tetradrachms of the second through first centuries BCE.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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