American Numismatic Society - The ANS's Greatest Coins series examines coins in the American Numismatic Society's collection, carefully selected for their historical fame. In this episode ANS Chief Curator Dr. Peter van Alfen looks at the mystery of the beginnings of the Athenian "owl" coinage, one of the most widely used and widely circulating coinages of the ancient Greek world, which was introduced around the time that the Athenian democracy was formed after decades under the rule of the tyrant Peisistratus and his sons Hipparchus and Hippias.
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