Seeing ecoli's beautiful
Athena showing her helmet crest has prompted me to get out my
collection of classical Athenian owls.
While they were out I decided to photograph for the first time an
owl I've
had for almost 30 years. I was able to purchase it at the time because surface cracking and some
pitting had given it a frosty appearance, lowering the
price to something I could afford.
All these years later it remains one of my favorite coins. It would be even better if
Athena had a crest, but if she
had, even frosty she would have been out of my
price range! So I'm actually glad she didn't, or I wouldn't have
had the pleasure of ownership for nearly 30 years.
