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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 7881045, member: 75143&quot;][USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] , I wonder bout your statue example. Ancient statues went through EXTENSIVE restoration, often abusive, for centuries in the interest of aesthetics.</p><p><br /></p><p>starting around the 1970s there was a rather universal push to do minimal conservation instead of restoration, and in many cases even DE-restoration of previously repaired statues.</p><p><br /></p><p>would this indicate a possible future trend of RE-holing (ie removing hole plug repairs) from ancient coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>a few comments above mentioned repairs in a different colored metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>the archaeological practice of anastylosis enforces restoring structures using as much original material as possible. When a fill-in is critically needed for structural stability, it is to be made of a similar but distinct material to be immediately evident.</p><p><br /></p><p>you can see this in many Greek and Roman temples that look shapely but are mottled in two colors - often a rather yellow or brown for the antique, and a brighter white (of a different strand of marble) for the repairs.</p><p>Anastylosis also calls for all repairs to be easily reversible.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if this thinking could be feasibly applied to ancient coins as well - for example, repairing a holed gold coin in copper, which is easily removed to revert the coin back to its original condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>perhaps the fabric of coins is too small to provide for effective anastylosis. I guess we’ll see.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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