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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3568116, member: 19463&quot;]<img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/screenshot_20190613-194756-png.949430/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of all coins, the owls are more pieced out than any.&nbsp; Different people value different pieces.&nbsp; I agree with Sallent in preferring the vcoins $4k coin BUT several of us would not touch it due to the weak hair over the eye.&nbsp; The $36k coin is stronger there but is downright defective and uncollectable if you are a member of the full crest fetish group or one who insists on a full incuse square reverse.&nbsp; Otherwise excellent coins get decimated in the market for a bit of weakness in the owl&#039;s feathers or, my personal obsession, a nose touching the edge of the flan. </p><p><br /></p><p>I recently visited a friend who had just bought a group of the new hoard owls (it seems they are cheaper if you get a couple dozen).&nbsp; He had selected four with different imperfections as the best of his lot.&nbsp; All were lovely coins.&nbsp; One had the best crest with margins beyond it; one lost some crest (20%?) but was complete at the bottom.&nbsp; One had a truely great owl.&nbsp; My favorite was balanced and only slightly imperfect in each of the twenty or so points of consideration that make the difference between the high priced super coins and those that sell at a discount. </p><p><br /></p><p>This new group of owls is, most fortunately, from a style period that is popular and well executed.&nbsp; I do not know how many coins there are in total but hope the owners realize that they will have a lot easier time finding buyers for these than if they had 30,000 coins from the later 4th century (folded flans and funny shapes).&nbsp; What would be the market prospect for 30,000 test cut coins?&nbsp; Some of us there would love to have just any owl; some would even prefer a group that included several different styles so we could assemble a group (one from each decade???).&nbsp; It will take a while before we really know if there are loving homes for all those feral owls.&nbsp; When they were made, the owls were storehouses of bulk wealth like the ingots now in vaults.&nbsp; For a while they may return to that original status or even be the &#039;Lincoln Logs&#039; of the Hunt Brothers grandchildren. </p><p><img src="https://image.ec21.com/image/premetals9923/oimg_GC09081941_CA09082375/Silver-Ingots-Wires-Bars-Powder.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>One thing is certain:&nbsp; If you want a nice owl, you can get one today and you can be as picky as you want to be as long as you are willing to pay the price.&nbsp; In my time in the hobby there has always been a supply of owls available but now you can find offerings for bulk lots of really nice ones that previously would have been stars of our collections.&nbsp; What is not certain is whether the $1000 owl bought today will be $2000 or $200 next year.&nbsp; If you want an owl because you want an owl, that is of no matter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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