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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PlanoSteve, post: 6116424, member: 91609&quot;]Yes, doesn&#039;t it lend an endearing quality to these coins?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Not to mention, I imagine the competition for these is greatly reduced because &quot;purists&quot; would consider it &quot;defaced&quot;, &amp; only pursue &quot;perfect&quot; specimens.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, put your minds eye back, say 2,440 years ago, &amp; say a camel merchant was about to sell a herd (I think that&#039;s what they call a bunch of camels <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).&nbsp; If he were shrewd, &amp;/or already burned by fake coins (assuming he even knew of fakes), wouldn&#039;t it be prudent to make test cuts to see if perhaps fake coins had fake cuts to fake like it had already been tested, &amp; to fake the uninitiated into thinking the coin was OK?</p><p><br /></p><p>Same with bankers marks - just because there are 1 or 2 marks doesn&#039;t mean it still couldn&#039;t be fake; I mean, the fakers, wouldn&#039;t they fake cuts too?...it makes sense. </p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose that back then, &quot;bankers&quot; considered the veracity of their customers like we consider the veracity of the &quot;dealers&quot; we do business with (although I doubt any of us now do test cuts.&nbsp; I guess our version would be a slab, but we can remove those! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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