For all you "Old
style" fans. I came across this on my" travels"
I lifted the pic & description:I do
hope that's OK!
UNIQUE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT COIN LINKING ATHENIAN WAPPENMUNZEN AND OWLS.
ATTICA,
ATHENS, c. 515-510 BC. AR fraction, 0.87 gm., Unpublished, Sear_,
SNG Copenhagen_, Plant_,
SNG ANS_.
Head of
bull facing/Owl stg. l.
AQE to l., olive berry to r., all within
incuse square. F. An extremely interesting coin. The
obverse bucranium is well known on the "Wappenmünzen" series of ca. 545-515 BC (
cf. Svoronos, Corpus of the
Ancient Coins of
Athens, pl. 1, 45) but here the
reverse is consistently a diagonally divided
incuse square. The first "owls" with a
head of
Athena on
obverse appear to have been introduced about 510 BC (
cf. Svoronos pl. 2, 54-9 for fractions with a
reverse type similar to this piece), but there seems to be no other known example of an overlap of
types between these two distinct series. My thanks to David
Sear for the
attribution. UNIQUE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT, ONLY ONE EXAMPLE KNOWN
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