I don't collect ancients, but enjoy reading your posts.
But even if the damage occurred at the mint it shoud lessen the grade or be ungradeable as a clean grade.
Ancient pertaining to coins is 500 AD and earlier. is that correct?
If you go to the ancient forum and just scroll for a page or two most of the avatars shown have a face on them.
As I voted I would do faces.
I would take a few and work with as suggested by people here and see how much better you could make those look. I would take the best of the lot...
Interesting, I didn't know these existed, thanks for posting with the photos.
Nice looking coins in great grades. What are the medals in these coins. Edit= medals is metals
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