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A nice ancient owl

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I love the way the toning makes the owl stand out.Text

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,454 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That owl is one of the coolest designs ever on a coin. Which I could afford one of those.

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,428 ✭✭✭✭✭
    wow... very cool and an outstanding treasure.

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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    I don't ever remember seeing any ancients with toning like that image
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  • Kurt4Kurt4 Posts: 492 ✭✭
    Great coin. That is one that is on my "someday" list.
  • ROBERTBROBERTB Posts: 1,016
    Wow!! That's an amazingly clean coin. It never ceases to amaze me how a coin so old can look so magnificent.
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  • nicholasz219nicholasz219 Posts: 1,386 ✭✭✭
    Yeah I have never seen an ancient with toning like that either. That is pretty phenomenal.

    Most of the ancient I see is on Harlan J. Berk's Website. He has a nice selection, but he is mostly high end material as well.

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  • RedTigerRedTiger Posts: 5,608 ✭
    That is a real beauty.
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  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
    Theoretically ancients shouldn't tone like that. Natural toning like that only generally occurs on uncirs.

    Circulated coins (even slightly) tend to go grey... i suspect it has more to do with storage.
  • rhound1977rhound1977 Posts: 2,504
    Some day I will have one of that series, nice find image
  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
    That is a great coin Brett, do you also have the Archaic and Classical type Owls?
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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    That is super! Who is depicted on the obverse?
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  • BailathaclBailathacl Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭
    Is it Athena on the obverse?
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  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭


    << <i>Is it Athena on the obverse? >>




    Most likely. Athenian and the Owl of course are synonymous.


    But i don't know jack squat about Greek coins so i defer to others.
  • BSBS Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭
    I didn't buy this coin, it's still for sale from CNG. I just thought it was a cool design.

    Yes, the obverse is Athena.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    I like the beautiful, elegant and balanced designs, but also the amount of detail and sculpting on the high reliefs. Cool!

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