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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 2671732, member: 83175&quot;]Here are a few - owls, woodpecker, swan, eagles, ravens, &quot;small wrenlike bird&quot;, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>The normal Crawford 141/1 with a wren-like bird - a todus or todillus in Latin, presumably a pun on the moneyer&#039;s name:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_TODDenarius2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>A fourrée example with a different bird:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_TODDenarius.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>It&#039;s maybe beyond the ornithological aspect of the thread, but there are apparently fourrées of this issue from different dies, all with these non-wrenlike birds - maybe a clue to the forger as to which coins were of his own manufacture.</p><p><br /></p><p>A classical owl:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_AthensTet.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>An off-the-flan Lesbos owl:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_MytileneHekte.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>A new-style owl:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_AthensTetradrachm_2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Tarentum owl:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_Tarentum_drachm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>A battered archaic owl (well, the bird isn&#039;t too ruffled, Athena came out worse):</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_AthensDecadrachm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Kamarina swan (under Nike):</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_KamarinaObol.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Raven on a Lepidus denarius:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_Lepidus4Denarius.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Quinarius version:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_MAnt_Lepidus_Quin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Woodpecker (on tree behind the wolf!):</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_Pompeia1Denarius.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Little Ptolemaic gold eagle (if not a golden eagle!):</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_PtolemyITriobol.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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