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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4224688, member: 110350"]My favorite portrait of Athena on a coin is the one on my Corinthian stater, which I've already posted in the "spear" and International Women's Day threads, so I'll refrain from doing so a third time! So instead, here's Minerva on the reverse of a Domitian denarius: Domitian AR Denarius 88-89 AD. Obv. Laureate head right, IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TRP VIII/ Rev. Minerva standing right w/javelin & shield, IMP XIX COS XIIII CENS PPP. RIC II-1 667 (2007 ed.), old RIC II 137 (1926 ed.), RSC II 252, BMCRE 151. 17.78 mm., 3.42 g. Ex Gorny & Mosch. [ATTACH=full]1081245[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1081250[/ATTACH] And here's my one Athenian owl -- 25 mm. and 16.79 g., with a test cut through the owl's face on the reverse, as well as what appears to be a circular banker's mark in the owl's stomach. [ATTACH=full]1081251[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1081252[/ATTACH] As I've previously mentioned, because of the test cut and banker's mark, the scratches on the obverse, and the missing final "E" and general degree of wear on the reverse, I was able to buy this coin for $325 at the 2007 NYINC -- even then, a very low price!  No matter how many descriptions I read of the different types and classifications, and no matter how many images I look at, I've never been able to figure out exactly what specific category of "classical Owl" it falls into.  It's definitely rather unusual in that the length of beads extending down to Athena's neck appears to come directly from the earring, rather than from behind the ear like the separate length of some other material.[/QUOTE]

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