Owls? You want owls?

Justacommeman

Forgot I had these in my honeymoon pics. Before you ask the muesum was across the street and we ran out of cigerettes. Ok, we don't smoke but I for sure needed a break.

mark

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bronzemat

Great pics, would take them all!

SmEagle1795

I was just there a few weeks ago! Beautiful museum and a great array of ancients, including some neat hoard displays.

OldEastside

cool

Steve

Justacommeman

Yes SmEagle1795 what a cool building! House

lordmarcovan

Awesome!

Those little "claws" holding the coins are kind of bizarre, though. Remind me of those little plastic dental flossers, or some kind of bizarre golf-ball recovery tools.

I am quite envious of your visit there.

lordmarcovan

I shall now shamelessly use this thread as an excuse to post my owl newp.

Ancient Greece (Spartans in Taras, Calabria, Italy): silver drachm, Athena and owl, ca. 302-281 BC

And the one I just swapped away to @Aethelred.

Ancient Greece (Pontos, Amisos): silver drachm or siglos featuring Hera and owl, ca. late 5th to 4th century BC
(Note similarity to Coin number 21 in the museum exhibit in the OP photo.)

silverpop

cool coins

asheland

Awesome! I want one now!

SmEagle1795

@lordmarcovan said:
Awesome!

Those little "claws" holding the coins are kind of bizarre, though. Remind me of those little plastic dental flossers, or some kind of bizarre golf-ball recovery tools.

I am quite envious of your visit there.

A single picture doesn't quite capture the intent: it's actually a **rotating ** display for the Athens dekadrachm they have. It allows both sides to be shown, at the correct die axis alignment, just by waiting a handful of seconds for the coin to flip back over.

Justacommeman

lordmarcovan

@SmEagle1795 said:

@lordmarcovan said:
Awesome!

Those little "claws" holding the coins are kind of bizarre, though. Remind me of those little plastic dental flossers, or some kind of bizarre golf-ball recovery tools.

I am quite envious of your visit there.

A single picture doesn't quite capture the intent: it's actually a **rotating ** display for the Athens dekadrachm they have. It allows both sides to be shown, at the correct die axis alignment, just by waiting a handful of seconds for the coin to flip back over.

Oh, neat!

OK, that makes sense.

Zoins

Those coin holders are very cool! The coins too

lordmarcovan

@Justacommeman - FWIW, I spent two or three hours metal detecting on the second night of my honeymoon, while the new ladymarcovan slept. Yes - that's right. At night. On my honeymoon.

In defense of my geekishness, I will say the following:

1. We were staying at a B&B that had originally been a plantation house. It had been built circa 1790. Imagine, if you will, the digging possibilities in the large yard shaded by ancient cedar trees which surrounded the place. I cannot visit such a place without my detectorist's brain activating.
2. The owners/innkeepers were totally cool with me doing that and managed to disguise all their "what a weirdo!" facial expressions when the topic had been discussed. They might not have even had such thoughts of ridicule. Who knows. B&B innkeepers (at least in the Deep South) are hospitality personified.
3. My bride is also tolerant and even supportive of such behaviors, which is one of several reasons she became my bride in the first place and has remained so these last 18 years and counting.
   
   
   PS- alas, the large cents, Bust & Seated coins, and Spanish reales in that yard eluded my searchcoil that time. I know they were there, though.
   PPS- as a nod to the title of this thread, whose subject I totally veered away from in my ramblings, I will mention that when I was detecting in the dark around that old plantation house, an owl hooted from the branches of one of the ancient cedar trees.

Zoins

I like owls but I just have to say the bee coins are cool!

carabonnair

Thanks for this interesting thread. We actually bought a little owl at the Denver ANA show.