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Not just using the same design, it's an image of a coin on a coin.
yo dawg
I see the outline of the old coin on the new coin but the owl has significant differences like it was redrawn from scratch
from scratch
Looks stamped to me
Like a Dwarf Fortress artifact.
Wait, Athens used the Euro 2500 years ago? They truly were ahead of their time.
No, they used the gyro.
Doing anything to not pay an artist, smh
~/s just in case~
Israel does the same thing with the 10 agarot coin!
Yeah, but Israel can go suck a dick.
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.
Heartbreaking: worst country you know does kind of cool thing
And Nazis made the WV Beetle your point?
I'm surprised it doesn't have a picture of a dead kid
What's that map?
Anything not to pay a freaking artist.
A real artist would have put a poop emoji in there somewhere
Talk about being lazy.
Give a hoot Greece!
That's an Eypo not a Euro, clearly.
/s
EYPΩ
That owl has seen some shit
When you copy someone else's homework but get a better grade.
Hah!
What a hoot.
Why mess with perfection?
That's the Owl of Athena: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl_of_Athena
Has some cool symbolism
Antiquity did it better
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2026
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