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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2530598, member: 19463&quot;]Every so often we have questions about owls from Athens and many show are modern fakes.&nbsp; The coins were so popular even in their day that some were made in places far from Athens.&nbsp; Some are identifiable only by style and many in collections today may very well have started life in Eqypt or somewhere far from Athens.&nbsp; Below is a 1/4 unit issued by the Arab Sabaeans in the 3rd-2nd century BC.&nbsp; They were struck on a weight standard completely different from Athenian coins but they even have the name Athens on the reverse. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]540843[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;This is a 1/4 unit clearly marked by the X on Athena&#039;s cheek. Other denominations (whole to 1/8) have other Sabaean letters on the cheek. They are not particularly good silver (and this one could stand cleaning).&nbsp; Post your Sabaean silver with other letters. </p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/arabia/himyarites/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/arabia/himyarites/t.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/arabia/himyarites/t.html</a></p><p>Wildwinds seems to have the denominations other than the one shown here mixed in on their Arab page.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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