Owl - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card
Monday July 6, 2009
Say "owl" to her, or "glaux" like the ancients did: the Greek 1 Euro coin's reverse shows another coin's reverse.
That other coin, the Athenian tetradrachm (four drachmai), was Ancient Greece's most popular coin. It had Athena on one side and on the flip Athena's favorite bird, the owl. The omnipresent Tetradrachms were commonly called "owls".
The owl in the following stationery is not the tetradrachm owl — but it, too, is solemn, big-eyed and beautiful:
›› Owls are pretty animals, and they make pretty stationery, too. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
That other coin, the Athenian tetradrachm (four drachmai), was Ancient Greece's most popular coin. It had Athena on one side and on the flip Athena's favorite bird, the owl. The omnipresent Tetradrachms were commonly called "owls".
The owl in the following stationery is not the tetradrachm owl — but it, too, is solemn, big-eyed and beautiful:
›› Owls are pretty animals, and they make pretty stationery, too. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)



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