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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Reid Goldsborough, post: 256, member: 34&quot;]Michael, you&#039;re quibbling muchly. Athenian Owls circulated much more widely than the coins you mentioned (and you left out Aigina Turtles as being a well known and popular international coin that preceeded Athenian Owls). You equated Owls with Athenian bronze coinage when the nickname &quot;Owl&quot; means Athenian Owl tetradrachms, by far the most commonly surviving denomination, which is clearly what I was talking about tetradrachms. You say that because Owls weren&#039;t struck every year for a half millenium they were&#039;t struck continuously. Of course there were gaps in mintage. There always are, with many early U.S. coins as well. The point is the same basic design -- portrait of helmeted Athena on obverse, owl on reverse -- and same weight and same metal purity persisted for about 500 years, an amazing run. As far as the market value goes, I was basing this on what other specimens have sold for. Market value isn&#039;t totally reinvented with each individual transaction! And finally, who would dispute that the Saint and Walker were more classical than the Lincoln cent and Buffalo nickel? You say that &quot;all&quot; U.S. coins are classical. The Buffalo nickel, by its mere inclusion of a Latin motto, doesn&#039;t become classical. Its design motifs, very American, as in native American, are anything but classical. Can I suggest you start collecting coins again, and looking at them?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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