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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 4224256, member: 96898&quot;]<font size="3"><font size="4">Nice owl and welcome, [USER=110226]@robinjojo[/USER] !</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><font size="4">Apart from the well-known Athenian tetradrachm and hemidrachm, I have Athenas from Lampsakos and Cappadocia: </font></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1081189[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Attica, Athens, AR tetradrachm, ca. 440s–430s BC. Obv: head of Athena to right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves and palmette. Rev: AΘE; Owl standing right, head facing; to left, olive sprig and crescent; all within incuse square. 24mm, 17.14g. Ref: Kroll 8. Ex Leu, Webauktion 8, lot 232.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1081188[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Attica, Athens, AR triobol or hemidrachm, ca. 390–295 BC. Obv: head of Athena with Attic helmet r. Rev: Owl standing facing between olive twigs, retrograde ethnic [A]ΘE around. 12.5mm, 2.06g. Ref: SNG Munich 206–7.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1081190[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Mysia,&nbsp; Lampsakos, diobol, ca. 400–300 BC. Obv: Janiform female heads. Rev: Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet, ΛΑΜ around, fly right. 10mm, 1.2g. Ref: SNG France 1190; Baldwin 1924, group B, type I,19.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1081187[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Ariobarzanes I. Philorhomaios, Kingdom of Cappadocia, AR drachm, 66/65 BC, Eusebeia mint. Obv: Diademed head right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ APIOBAPZANOY ΦIΛOPΩMAIOY, Athena standing left, holding shield, spear and Nike; to left monogram, Λ in exergue (off flan). 17mm, 4.3g. Ref: Simonetta 1977, no. 43.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>There are, of course, many more faces to Athena if you also take her Roman equivalent Minerva into account:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1081193[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Claudius, Roman Empire, as, 41–54 AD, Rome mint. Obv: [TI] CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP, bareheaded head of Claudius left. Rev; S–C, Minerva walking left, brandishing javelin and holding shield. 29mm, 10.35g. Ref: RIC I, 100.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1081191[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Domitian, Roman Empire, denarius, 88/89 AD, Rome mint. Obv: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM PM TR P VIII, laureate head of Domitian right. Rev: IMP XIX COS XIIII CENS PP, Minerva standing left holding thunderbolt and spear, leaning on shield. 19mm, 3.22g. Ref: RIC II (2007), 669.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1081192[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Septimius Severus, Roman Empire, AR denarius, 195 AD, Rome mint. Obv: L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP V; head of Septimius Severus, laureate, r. Rev: P M TR P III COS II P P; Minerva, helmeted, draped to feet, standing l., holding spear downward in r. hand and round shield at side in l. hand. 18mm, 3.15g. Ref: RIC IV Septimius Severus 61. Ex AMCC 2, lot 451 (their picture).</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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