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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hoth2, post: 7881059, member: 74431&quot;]I think the difference is twofold: </p><p><br /></p><p>1. An oil-on-canvas painting is one of a kind.&nbsp; There&#039;s no &quot;better&quot; version of the old master&#039;s painting to compete with the touched-up/restored painting, and </p><p><br /></p><p>2. Art has at least the pretensions of being all about the aesthetics--which means the artist&#039;s original intention/vision is paramount, whereas you&#039;d be hard-pressed to find a collector who doesn&#039;t think the history of a coin is a large part of its value.&nbsp; That history gets garbled and confused by a plug or smoothing or whatever other restorations are done, especially since they&#039;re done in the shadows.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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