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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 4767737, member: 110226&quot;]Greetings from smoke choked Cupertino.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an owl that is almost the antithesis of all the bright and shiny examples being sold today.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin came by way of Israel, the source of two other basically uncleaned owls in the collection.&nbsp; The coin below is the least cleaned to date.&nbsp; I was a little suspicious of the earth deposits, with the recent shenanigans on the part of some sellers marketing &quot;desert patina&quot;, so immersed the coin in 100% acetone last night.&nbsp; The deposits emerged intact, and they really are quite hard, almost like cement.&nbsp; The black &quot;hoard patina&quot; also seems authentic.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin weighs 17.4 grams, but I suspect that the weight would be in the neighborhood of 17.2 grams or so if the earth deposits were removed, which, of course, they won&#039;t, at least while the coin is in my care.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find uncleaned coins like these quite appealing.&nbsp; Perhaps this is a symptom of old age, where the collector indeed start resembling many of the coins he or she owns.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, having said this, the question that I put to the Forum is this:&nbsp; Is the coin, in your opinion, of Athenian origin, eastern origin or possibly from the Levant or Egypt?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I am quite sure that this coin came from the Middle East region, either as part of a hoard, or as an individual find.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1161700[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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