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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4938262, member: 10461&quot;]Really I haven&#039;t looked very hard, or formulated how much I want to spend, though $500 or less seems a given.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know much about the styles and varieties but seem to like the transitional ones.&nbsp; I like the archaic looking owl, but not so much the archaic looking Athena with the almond eyes.&nbsp; She looks insectile and alien to me.&nbsp; I prefer the later, transitional Athenas, like on the pi-style coins such as <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Pi-Style" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Pi-Style" rel="nofollow">this</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">(Pic borrowed from FORVM- see link above)</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/Coins2/68874q00.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not saying <i>that&#039;s </i>the coin for me, above.&nbsp; I&#039;d have other criteria.&nbsp; A rounder flan, for example.&nbsp; And really nice surfaces and toning.&nbsp; And so on.&nbsp; Since I have waited so long, I have a sort of an idealized Owl tet in my mind.&nbsp; One that might not even exist.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe one day I&#039;ll come down to earth a bit and find one that I both like <i>and</i> can afford.&nbsp; Maybe in six years, for my 50th anniversary as a collector, eh?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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