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[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 106 points 4 days ago

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

[-] Steve@startrek.website 20 points 4 days 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 10 points 4 days ago

from scratch

Looks stamped to me

[-] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Like a Dwarf Fortress artifact.

[-] notabot@piefed.social 61 points 4 days ago

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

[-] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 4 days ago

No, they used the gyro.

[-] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 39 points 4 days ago

Doing anything to not pay an artist, smh

~/s just in case~

[-] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

Anything not to pay a freaking artist.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

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

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 days ago

Israel does the same thing with the 10 agarot coin!

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 54 points 4 days ago

Yeah, but Israel can go suck a dick.

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 4 days ago

Heartbreaking: worst country you know does kind of cool thing

And Nazis made the WV Beetle your point?

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 4 days ago

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

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 3 days ago

What's that map?

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago
[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Give a hoot Greece!

[-] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 days ago

That's an Eypo not a Euro, clearly.

/s

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 15 points 4 days ago
[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 4 days ago

That owl has seen some shit

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

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

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago

Hah!

What a hoot.

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 days ago

Why mess with perfection?

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago

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

Has some cool symbolism

Antiquity did it better

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