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[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 102 points 1 day ago

Not just using the same design, it's an image of a coin on a coin.

[-] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 22 hours ago

Like a Dwarf Fortress artifact.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 19 points 1 day ago

I see the outline of the old coin on the new coin but the owl has significant differences like it was redrawn from scratch

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

from scratch

Looks stamped to me

[-] notabot@piefed.social 58 points 1 day ago

Wait, Athens used the Euro 2500 years ago? They truly were ahead of their time.

No, they used the gyro.

Antiquity did it better

[-] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 day ago

Doing anything to not pay an artist, smh

~/s just in case~

[-] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Anything not to pay a freaking artist.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 23 hours ago

A real artist would have put a poop emoji in there somewhere

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago

Israel does the same thing with the 10 agarot coin!

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 54 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but Israel can go suck a dick.

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

the have a necrowanker unit, does it count?

imagine how much into racial blood purity you have to be for the state to take dead people's sperm without their consent.

[-] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

Heartbreaking: worst country you know does kind of cool thing

And Nazis made the WV Beetle your point?

[-] prole 21 points 1 day ago

I'm surprised it doesn't have a picture of a dead kid

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 22 hours ago

What's that map?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

That owl has seen some shit

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago
[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Give a hoot Greece!

[-] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago

That's an Eypo not a Euro, clearly.

/s

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 13 points 1 day ago
[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

When you copy someone else's homework but get a better grade.

[-] prole 5 points 1 day ago

That's the Owl of Athena: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl_of_Athena

Has some cool symbolism

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

Why mess with perfection?

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Hah!

What a hoot.

this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2026
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