Rebecca Spang: Can't miss the opportunity to share my own favorite Superb Owl, an Athenian silver tentradrachm from c. 400 BCE.

Can't miss the opportunity to share my own favorite Superb Owl, an Athenian silver tentradrachm from c. 400 BCE.

* "tetradrachm" ALL the most popular posts have to have a typo in them. It's just a rule and we can't change it.

Fascinating how long AOL already exists.

ping @alymay.bsky.social (I hope you’re enjoying Superb Owl Day). Also @funranium.bsky.social (num…numin…COINS!) & @cherylrofer.bsky.social for animal shaped things and art.

Oh yes. An old favorite. You can even see the very early efforts to minimize clipping of coins to steal silver.

Athena, whose owl that presumably is, has lots of fans in the SF Writer community.

As a kid in Greece, I was infatuated with the owl on the euro coin. This one is even more beautiful.

Quite familiar! I wear a Superb #Owl every single day. It’s likely the same coin, Athena/Pallas on one side, and wise Bubo/Glaux on the other. The first day I wore this, about 5 years ago, I had an amazing #dream about Medusa. Truly, this is one of my most beloved charms. #mythology

Here’s my contribution: a super eagle owl c.2022

Tetradrachm?

“All the most popular posts must have a typo in them!!!” Sorry, I don’t make the rules, just abide by them….

I want a cake pan like this

That is surely the epitome of owldom

Always liked this coin

Wow 😮

Very superb!

In college I gave a senior seminar lecture about Greek coins and left this coin image up for the talk and explained so because I dig owls so much!

And from Clash Of The Titans... Bubo

Took me all day of reading Superb Owl posts and thinking "cool to have a photofest day for owls" before I made the connection. Gonna go turn in my man card at the branch office now.

I have a copy, sure many do, of that as necklace pendant 😁

And, we had Athena's owl as our school badge 80 years ago and I see it is still there on the school's current web site . . .

Bubo!

Here are mine. Something ancient and Greek, Septimus Severus, something I can’t identify (Caligula? Titus?), and Geta

I like the Geta best because of the Damnatio Memoriae which didn’t entirely work.

Awesome Kinda looks like a monster hunter Pukei to me 🤔

What does the inscription mean?

Probably the beginning of "Athena," whose symbol is the owl.

Love it. People from 2 thousand years ago perceived the world just like us. For me, also the same aesthetic. Thank you for sharing.

This Owl"" is cokeedout of his head!!!!!

I'm loving this #SuperbOwlSunday! pin.it/3m16eLtEL

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It's the Owl of Athens 😃

I heard an owl call my name. Means to feel the weight of the world upon me, my death is coming soon. Oji-Cree culture AFAIK. Something very rational me absorbed before I were rational.

😳😃👍🏻

too bad it’s lost so much if its purchasing power, due to inflation

Haha I think I like this more

Ἀθηνᾶ in Greek, but here AθE on the coin. Why this shift from η to e?

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