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 to the community This is supposed to be an ancient coin know as the Athens Owl, outwardly it looks genuine, but I can't be sure from just the picture. Can you provide a size and weight of the piece and a picture of the edge? I'm also going to move this over to the Ancient coin section for more help. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow...this must be what it looks like if an owl ever mates with a mosquito... It's a known modern fake. See below from Forvm's Fake Coin Reports:  Athens-Attica Modern cast fake in extremely poor style attempting to copy a AR tetradrachm of Athens, Attica, 4th century BC, but failing in the attempt. Obv. is supposed to be Athena, helmeted, r.; rev. is supposed to be an owl, facing. |
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Spain
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The reverse is not an owl...
...itīs Freddy Krueger
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Australia
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No, that's not Freddie, it's the type of replica I like to call the "Edvard Munch owl". Do a forum search for "Edvard owl" and you'll find numerous examples of this very same mass-produced replica, where I've called it that.  In one of those old threads, a postal worker (?) reported finding one in a "tub of outgoing mail". Presumably, it was part of a Reader's-Digest-style mass-mailout. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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thanks for the quick responses looks like I got my answer, Thanks so much!
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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Sap, I said "Freddy Krueger" because if I had said "Carmen de Mairena" no one was going to know what I wanted to say...  That is not the worse image that you can find of him (yes, he really was a man) Edited by Athalbert
05/30/2015 1:42 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Itīs worse that you can imagine, but as you said in the rules:
Iīm not going to write anything that I wouldnīt be happy if my 7 years old daughter could see it...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Is there a such thing as a modern barbarous imitation?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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ahhhh yeah...that's exactly what I thought BL! in my mind this fake will be known as the "gonzo tetradrachm".
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United States
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I think you folks nailed it! I am satisfied it is a fake. Thanks so much.
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Posted 05/29/2015 9:14 pm
