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What is it fake or real...

HiBuckyHiBucky Posts: 614 ✭✭✭
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Value or is it trash

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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a "Reader's Digest" replica of an Athenian Owl tetradrachm, mass-produced in the mid-20th century and given away to promote one of their books on ancient Greece. I have seen many of them pop up on the forums over the years. They always come in the exact same style of ill-fitting capsule, so I assume that is how they were given away. The poor Owl has what I call a distinctive "Edvard Munch" appearance, with half-melted-looking eyes and wings that look like two planks of wood.

    Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
    Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"

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  • HiBuckyHiBucky Posts: 614 ✭✭✭

    Thanks ...... ALL for your help. I just needed to to go to the right place for the answers.

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