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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2711434, member: 19463&quot;]Exactly.&nbsp; In their day the idea of a coin that was better than the original was accepted as an honor to the original.&nbsp; Today very few of us feel at all comfortable having a replica, modified or even cleaned coin.&nbsp; Most of the replicas we see are pretty awful compared to the originals but Cavino was an artist who honored the ancients by attempting to translate their beauty into the artistic language of his day.&nbsp; He did not seek to be just another Roman but the one that did things as he thought was right and the way the originals would have been done had the makers be able.&nbsp; Do we accept him as better than the originals?&nbsp; No, but I can appreciate his efforts.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Compare, perhaps, a book that is made into a movie.&nbsp; Occasionally we see one that not only captures the spirit of the original but polishes away some of the rough spots.&nbsp; We will all differ in our lists of which movies make this list and Coin Talk is not the proper venue for that discussion.&nbsp; Ask yourself which modern coins would be admired if collecting worked the other way and Caesar Augustus could have some 21st century coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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