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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 7873465, member: 84905&quot;]This problem is really scary. With some of these coins I noted that not only has the hole been plugged expertely, also some flat surfaces had been reworked in a very convincing way, at least judging by the pictures. So the manipulation doesn&#039;t seem to be limited to plugging holes, but also involves reworking the surfaces of coins, which may be even less detetable than a plugged hole.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is perhaps interesting to note, is that people in Ukraine appear to have a somewhat different attitude towards such repairs. The Ukrainian website also offeres restored fibulae, belt buckles and other ancient objects (they have a category for that). These repairs are typically noted, but what I&#039;m getting at is that nobody in the west think of taking a 1700 year old fibula and replace the spring and weld on a new catch plate to restore it to working order. So the people doing these coin repairs may not even think that it is a no go.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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