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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8340712, member: 110226&quot;]This &quot;folded flan&quot; owl arrived today.&nbsp; The primary reason why I acquired this coin from Tom Vossen through VCoins is the strong folded flan features of this coin.&nbsp; The folding is especially evident on the obverse, where I believe some of the original coin&#039;s design is still present, to the right of the profile.&nbsp; I&#039;m still analyzing the coin, but there appear to be some letters.</p><p><br /></p><p>As these intermediate owls go, this coin is quite nice, with a very well centered owl on the reverse.&nbsp; The flan itself is quite narrow, at 20mm and quite round, giving this owl a &quot;dumpy&quot; appearance that one would expect from, say, some of&nbsp; the silver coinage of India, but this owl is clearly of Athenian origin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Athens, circa 350-297 BC</p><p>Tetradrachm</p><p>Bingen Pi V</p><p><br /></p><p>17.14 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1478944[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: I have examined the obverse closely and the letter to the right of the portrait might be ΣΥΡ.&nbsp; Since the flan was folded and heated the letters are flat and distorted to a degree.&nbsp; But, if they are ΣΥR, then it is possible that the original coin that entered the Athenian Mint to be reprocessed into an owl was a tetradrachm from Syracuse.&nbsp; This is just a conjecture, but an interesting one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Possibly a tetradrachm of the Second Democracy?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479124[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479125[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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