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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 7879748, member: 120820&quot;]I&#039;d be fine with owning a coin with that type of repair, although if I&#039;d bought it holed I&#039;d have left it that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think there&#039;s a big difference between repairing a hole in the field that isn&#039;t impinging on any of the devices, and &quot;repairing&quot; a hole or test cut that goes through the design and therefore requires the work of the original engraver to be replaced with that of someone modern.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s like the difference between having a tear/cut in the canvas of an old oil painting that can be repaired without materially changing the painting, or finding a Mona Lisa where someone in the past cut the face out, and someone modern deciding to patch in some new canvas and paint a new face in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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