Athenian Owl Silver pendant, created Sydney. The original coin, a Silver Athenian Tetradrachm dating to around 330BC, with this iconic Athenian Owl on its reverse, Athena on the obverse, came into the hand of Christopher William for the creation of a 9ct Gold pendant mount.
The owner of the coin kindly allowed the original ancient Silver coin to be cold-cast. The replica was then sliced in two, giving one model for the Attic Owl, another for Athena.

The drachma, or drachm, was an ancient Greek coin which spawned the tetradrachm, four drachms in one; these Silver coins were minted throughout Greece and its colonial city-states, however the Athenian tetradrachm, unchanged for centuries, became the standard coin of the Antique world, due to its quite standard and predictable weight, that of four Attic drachms at 4.3 grams a drachm, and also its high Silver content, underpinned by the productive Silver mines of Attica itself, without which Athens arguably would never have achieved the prominence it did.