Need Help Identifying A Coin (Id: Readers Digest Replica)

@obj, first welcome to CCF. Second, before we talk too much about what might be a coin from ancient Athens, can you please add information about this piece (diameter and weight) and a picture of the other side? Thx.

Hello and welcome.

Unfortunately, I can say with authority that this is definitely not a genuine ancient Athenian "owl" drachm. It is a modern mass-produced replica, made by Readers Digest as an advertising gimmick to promote one of their books on ancient Greek history.

The "Edvard Munch eyes" and the two wings that look like planks of wood, are quite distinctive of this replica; we have seen them here on the forum many times before. Often, they are still in the little coin capsule that Readers Digest sent them out in. They are probably the most confusion-causing replica ancient coins we see on the forums.

Some older threads discussing them can be seen here, here, here, here, and here.