Greek Athena Owl Need Autentication

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Armed3 New Member United States 1 Posts	Posted 10/13/2010 4:47 pm I came across what appears to be an ancient Greek Athena Owl Coin but compared to all the pictures I've seen online it doesn't match any. So now I'm wondering about the authenticity of it. Sorry about the picture quality its from my phone. I'll try to find my battery charger for my camera. Higher Res Edited by Armed3 10/13/2010 4:55 pm Report this Post to the Staff

maridvnvm Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2100 Posts	Posted 10/13/2010 6:21 pm This doesn't look like any ancient owl that I have seen. It is likely to be modern. Martin Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 10/13/2010 8:18 pm to the community I agree looks like a copy to me also. Report this Post to the Staff
Tim Stroud Pillar of the Community United States 2661 Posts	Posted 10/14/2010 4:23 pm I will agree with modern and that is all. There is definitely no owl and that is a poor representation of Athena at best, if that is who it is supposed to be. I searched through all the illustrations in my reference books and found nothing that matches either side of the coin. However, I cannot say that my reference guides contain illustrations for all known ancient Greek coins either. It could be a souvenir piece, a previously unknown ancient Greek coin, or may not be Greek at all. That is just my opinion about it. I hope you find that it is a previously unknown ancient coin of some sort worth a mint, pun intended. Edited by Tim Stroud 10/14/2010 4:24 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Wei Fun Valued Member United States 244 Posts	Posted 10/14/2010 9:41 pm For a good look at what an owl coin should look like: http://www.harlanjberk.com/currentb...ile=text.asp and click on the larger images link. Report this Post to the Staff
JWray New Member United States 1 Posts	Posted 02/14/2011 05:43 am I found this exact coin today and have a lot of questions about it. I'd love to find out where these coins are all coming from. It's certainly a reproduction of some kind, but who makes them? Where can you get them? And why does everyone who posts one have a similar story of simply finding it? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16849 Posts	Posted 02/14/2011 07:48 am This particular class of replica, with what I've dubbed the "Edvard Munch"-style skinny owl with a deformed eye and two planks for wings, has been seen multiple times here on the forum; see also here and here, all in the past year or so. It seems to me to be likely that they were mass-mailed out as part of some kind of advertising campaign. Reader's Digest is notorious for sending out tokens, replicas and other gimmicks to try to get the attention of their customers. I imagine in such circumstances that once the ad is thrown away, the context is lost and after a while nobody can remember where the coin-like thing came from. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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