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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1714379, member: 19463"]A few questions: How do you believe the tooling (possibly also on the reverse figure?) affected the price? A name off flan coin worn to fine would still bring a lot of money and there are more collectors who want an aureus even in good that the coin is in no danger of going unloved. I'm wondering if the coin were sold fully disclosed as to what had been done to it if the bottom line would have shifted one way or another. A second question would be how this same degree of touch up would affect an aureus of Vespasian (or any common ruler) where buyers have more room to be picky. As it is, I like the coin but my purist side always says I'd rather people keep their tools off of coins even when done as well as this was.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would absolutely love to see before and after photos of the same coin but this would obviously never happen. Repairs and 'upgrades' are not the sort of skill that we see openly admitted by the people who can do it well. If I owned a coin that I wanted 'fixed' I would not have the slightest idea who I could pay to do the work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1714379, member: 19463"]A few questions: How do you believe the tooling (possibly also on the reverse figure?) affected the price? A name off flan coin worn to fine would still bring a lot of money and there are more collectors who want an aureus even in good that the coin is in no danger of going unloved. I'm wondering if the coin were sold fully disclosed as to what had been done to it if the bottom line would have shifted one way or another. A second question would be how this same degree of touch up would affect an aureus of Vespasian (or any common ruler) where buyers have more room to be picky. As it is, I like the coin but my purist side always says I'd rather people keep their tools off of coins even when done as well as this was. I would absolutely love to see before and after photos of the same coin but this would obviously never happen. Repairs and 'upgrades' are not the sort of skill that we see openly admitted by the people who can do it well. If I owned a coin that I wanted 'fixed' I would not have the slightest idea who I could pay to do the work.[/QUOTE]
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