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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 3769387, member: 86498&quot;]In answer to Plumbata question. Absolutely I am sure that there are individuals and institutions who would love to shut down the selling of these coins and herd the whole bunch of them into some museum basement. I think the problem for them is</p><p>1. No one knows (or is not telling) how big the hoard is.</p><p>2. No one is telling where it came from. Notice the lack of a nifty hoard name.</p><p>2a. No one is saying if any of the other coins we have been seeing some numbers of lately are from the same group. (This would help narrow down locale).</p><p>2b Nor are they saying that the test cut owls which have showed up recently in some auctions are a part of it.</p><p>In fact what we got is a great big zero. If a government wanted to have these coins seized, they would first have to establish where and when the coins were in fact excavated and that it happened in their sovereign territory. Otherwise one could just as easily claim is that what we are looking at is a really enormous collection of Athenian tetradrachms put together over many decades by a collector who hated toned coins.</p><p>Okay The owl that started my quest to understand these birds. Tetradrachm of Athens circa 415-410 B.C. Flament Group III 17.20 grms Purchased in March 2014 (again before the&nbsp; big hoard...er collection <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[ATTACH=full]1008506[/ATTACH] PS This is when I got my copy of Flament[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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