Owls? You want owls?

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Justacommeman
Justacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
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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.

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  • bronzemat
    bronzemat Posts: 2,700 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Great pics, would take them all! B)

  • SmEagle1795
    SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,209 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I was just there a few weeks ago! Beautiful museum and a great array of ancients, including some neat hoard displays.

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  • OldEastside
    OldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    cool

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  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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.

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  • asheland
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    Awesome! I want one now!

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  • SmEagle1795
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    @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.

    Learn about our world's shared history told through the first millennium of coinage: Colosseo Collection
  • Justacommeman
    Justacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @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.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Those coin holders are very cool! The coins too ;)

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  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @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.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I like owls but I just have to say the bee coins are cool! :smile:

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  • carabonnair
    carabonnair Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Thanks for this interesting thread. We actually bought a little owl at the Denver ANA show.

    Gawain

    Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association

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