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Video: The Ans's Greatest Coins - The First Athenian Owl, The Dollar Of The Ancient Greek World

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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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The Athenian Owl finds it's modern day expression in
the U.S. gold $50 Panama Pacific octagonal and round gold Half Unions of 1915.

(The $100 gold coin was to be known as the 'Union' - never minted, no patterns exist.)
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