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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lemme Caution, post: 2900686, member: 90575&quot;]Artistically-speaking you are clearly on rock-hard solid ground here, I have no doubt whatsoever of that. Of <i>course </i>we as numismatists and occasional amateur historians would love to protect all art from desecration for the continued benefit of our children and grandchildren in particular and for the ongoing edification of future generations of our kind in general. That being said, I would only wish to point out that in this particular case, and it is really just this one instance that we are speaking of here, it is not in fact the beginning of the end of the world that someone who just might be more aptly described as an accumulator than a collector manages for his own pleasure to quite likely cause possibly more than a slight bit of &quot;structural damage&quot; to the condition and subsequent numismatic value of whatever coinage he happens to gets his hands on. In the bigger picture, this is neither a tragedy nor a catastrophe, and I doubt in any case that this is the inauspicious beginning of some sort of alarming, impending trend. An example of a genuine, monumental artistic atrocity,on the other hand, would be the the destruction in 1945, via intentionally-set conflagration, of roughly half of the phenomenal painter Gustav Klimt&#039;s unquestionably priceless and obviously irreplaceable masterpieces by the German SS during their retreat in WWII, an act so extreme in its expression of unspeakably horrific cultural vandalism that it can&#039;t to this day even begin to be fully comprehended. I&#039;m just saying it&#039;s all a matter of compared to what, and that is why, while wishing that ideally this one particular individual wouldn&#039;t feel the urge to need to scrub his coins to an artificially clean and shiny state, I can&#039;t get myself too worked up about him doing so either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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