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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ignoramus Maximus, post: 6090751, member: 104741&quot;]Wow! That&#039;s a great coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>The scratch doesn&#039;t bother me at all. The only thing that would worry me is that, if I were a perfectionist, I&#039;d stop enjoying the coin and ultimately only think about the scratch. I hope that you&#039;ve already forgotten about it and can fully enjoy its stunning beauty. That portrait of Pan...And the toning...I didn&#039;t know 34-carat gold existed!</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;At the budget I have to work with, at times I have to look for the coin through its flaws. Seriously: I&#039;ve come to accept flaws as part of the coin&#039;s history (as long as they are from use in its time), and as such find them not necessarily detracting, in some cases it actually attracts me to it. There are no rules, no rational considerations that determine if I like a coin. The only thing that matters is that it somehow speaks to me. Fortunately for me, sometimes a worn 20 or 200 Euro coin can speak as loudly and eloquently as a 5- or 10.000 or even more- Euro untouched treasure.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My only dealbreaker is tooling: a coin pretending to be something it&#039;s not.</p><p>Cheap make-up that makes a beautiful woman ugly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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