(03-09-2016 06:39 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Laurie, if you can get the statue with a garden I'd go for this one:

The owl was/is a symbol of wisdom and a symbol of the city and state of Athens in ancient Greece - and depicted on the first "€", i.e. oldest widely and "internationally" used coins:

Sadly Greece nowadays has become somewhat detached from wisdom on the subject of money, also nowadays the owls would most likely drop down dead from the trees in summer as Greece is by far Europe's smog capital...

And as you can read here, President Theodore Roosevelt used a Classical Owl as a pocket piece, which inspired him to order the redesign of U.S. coins early last century:
http://athenianowlcoins.reidgold.com/

A common German proverb - "carrying owls to Athens" (for doing something superfluous) - derived from ancient Greek writer Aristophanes' "Who brings owls to Athens? — Euelpides".

When cheating - er, I mean researching, I found the statue here - please scroll down for a real HOT Obama statue in China:
http://m.mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=23407