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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4878863, member: 57495"]That's a great little coin, especially with that detailed facing head of Athena! </p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=74834]@Pellinore[/USER] has a coin of Athens with a double-bodied owl, and in a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/finally-got-an-owl.362720/page-2#post-4615570" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/finally-got-an-owl.362720/page-2#post-4615570">post</a> a couple of months ago, he dug up an explanation that came from Dane Kurth in reply to Steve's query to her some years back about his owl double-bodied owl Sigeion. I think the idea of it representing Chares and Sigeion's affinity with Athens is a neat one (especially in the context of the double-bodied owl appearing on coins of other cities, even Corinth's on one issue of staters as a control symbol), but I'm not sure if it's anything more than an intriguing theory.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4878863, member: 57495"]That's a great little coin, especially with that detailed facing head of Athena! [USER=74834]@Pellinore[/USER] has a coin of Athens with a double-bodied owl, and in a [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/finally-got-an-owl.362720/page-2#post-4615570']post[/URL] a couple of months ago, he dug up an explanation that came from Dane Kurth in reply to Steve's query to her some years back about his owl double-bodied owl Sigeion. I think the idea of it representing Chares and Sigeion's affinity with Athens is a neat one (especially in the context of the double-bodied owl appearing on coins of other cities, even Corinth's on one issue of staters as a control symbol), but I'm not sure if it's anything more than an intriguing theory.[/QUOTE]
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