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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 222248, member: 6229&quot;]<font face="Arial">If you collect coins with owls on them, I thought you might like to know many Greek and other ancient coins bore likenesses and caricarures of owls on them from miniature to almost full coin reverses.</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">Greek coins were the first to carry an animal on them, but the very first animal depicted was an owl.</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">The following coin pic is courtesy of about.com. You can see the goddess Athena wearing a battle helmet facing right and the reverse has a very well struck image of an owl on it. </font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">The coin is a silver tetadracheme weighing 16.89 gms and was struck circa 449 B.C.</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://imagedb.coinarchives.com/img/ubs/064/00071q00.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imagedb.coinarchives.com/img/ubs/064/00071q00.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://imagedb.coinarchives.com/img/ubs/064/00071q00.jpg</a></font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">Do you own any coins (ancient to modern with owls on them? What are they?</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">Clinker</font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"> </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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