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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4756859, member: 99456&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Multiple considerations - if someone offered me this coin (at a price I could afford), I certainly wouldn&#039;t turn it down:</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/83/1197/972987.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I liked both of these Athenian Owls for very different reasons - and price/quality ratio for both were factors.&nbsp; This first one, for me, a sufficiently attractive example of this iconic coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1160704[/ATTACH]</p><p>This second one more interesting when paired with this paper:</p><p>John H. Kroll. (2011). <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.80.2.0229" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.80.2.0229" rel="nofollow">The Reminting of Athenian Silver Coinage</a>, 353 B.C.: For George Cawkwell in his 91st year. <i>Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,</i> <i>80</i>(2), 229-259.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1160750[/ATTACH] </p><p><i>&quot;not only are the flans commonly misshapen, but a number of them are so distorted that numismatists and coin collectors in Greece have long referred to them as “logs” (koutsoura); these are the tetradrachms in the form of long, stretched ovals with one or two nearly straight sides&quot;</i></p><p>-Kroll (2011)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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