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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8210742, member: 128351&quot;]This intermediate owl (not mine) has visited Cyprus!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440432[/ATTACH]</p><p>The countermark on the reverse has 3 Cypriot syllabic characters. I am not sure of the reading...</p><p><br /></p><p>This intermediate owl was very probably minted in Athens on a folded flan, i.e. after the decree of 353 BC recalling all owls at the mint, to be reminted on folded flans. After this it visited Cyprus where it got this nice countermark (apparently unpublished). Then it continued its journey to Raphia (today Rafah), where it was hoarded with others in a pottery. This probably happened before 343 and the Persian reconquest of Egypt, because in the hoard, among 350+ owls, there were no Egyptian imitations with the name of Artaxerxes or of the satrap. The pottery containing the coins was stored in some building which was set afire. The heat was so intense that molten metal in the centre of the coin squirted under pressure out of it and hit the pottery, hence this curious mushroom part silver part clay...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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