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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26233087, member: 86815&quot;]Personally [USER=70631]@Codera[/USER] I would call it an &quot;honest coin&quot;. After buying a couple of fakes in the past I have made a point of regarding bankers marks and graffiti as a positive and in some instances have encouraged me to buy a coin particularly expensive Octavian denarii which brought them within my reach.</p><p>When you consider the &quot;sweating&quot; of hand struck cobs by the Potosi minters in the 16th Century and the clipping of 15th and 16th Century Hammered coins I wonder if there was not some smug trader or banker making such deep cuts on every coin and then salvaging the silver at the end of his day? Certainly such a deep cut would contribute to the lower weight you mentioned on another post.</p><p>Here is my &quot;Owl&quot;. I wanted one for a long time but had other priorities. My strategy was to put in lowball bids and on one lucky day I picked mine up at a Noonans Auction which had several more and I guess they ran out of owl buyers as I picked this up relatively&nbsp; inexpensively.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1675470[/ATTACH]</p><p>HELMETED ATHENA FACING RIGHT</p><p>OWL STANDING RIGHT WITH OLIVE SPRIG IN INCUSE SQUARE</p><p><br /></p><p>SEAR 2526[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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