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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8324728, member: 110226&quot;]It just seems to be part of human nature to try to &quot;improve&quot; things, such as cleaning coins.&nbsp; Some cleaning is absolutely necessary, such as hoard coins with layers of dirt and encrustation.&nbsp; It&#039;s really a matter of degree and more often than not hoard coins are cleaned excessively, especially by people with little or no experience.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Also bright well struck owls, especially those with most of all of the crest showing on the obverse, have a strong appeal for collectors who are seeking an owl as it might have appeared from the mint 2,500 years ago.&nbsp; Those are the coins one sees slabbed or raw that fetch sometimes incredibly high hammer prices, given the population.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know who cleaned the owls from that gargantuan hoard that came out of Turkey a few years ago, but I must say whoever it was did a pretty decent job.&nbsp; Owls from the numerous other hoards, large and small, as well as individual finds are more prone to being cleaned improperly, but, every now and then a more or less original surface owl does show up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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