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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2004929, member: 19463&quot;]That is a nice P II as Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is interesting how we all have our own ways of looking at this issue.&nbsp; I have few problems with coins that were made less than perfect by being used for their intended purpose by people who lived in that day but I am very hard on coins made ugly by modern people with their harsh cleanings, toolings and things related to collecting (staple scratches, for example).&nbsp; I don&#039;t like crusties.</p><p><br /></p><p>For years I have owned the Claudius as below but I have never assigned it a number in my collection.&nbsp; It is smooth and has a good green patina.&nbsp; The obverse is good for a &#039;good&#039;.&nbsp; I feel shallow holding the lack of a reverse against the thing.&nbsp; If only it had not been spent so often???</p><p>[ATTACH=full]359880[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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