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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2763606, member: 10461&quot;]I&#039;d say that&#039;s exactly the story behind that one, though &quot;holey&#039; coins of course got holed for a variety of reasons in a variety of ways, and are subject to much interpretation centuries after the fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>But really, I don&#039;t think people should be quite so &quot;hole-o-phobic&quot;.&nbsp; Sure, a holed coin should sell for less than an undamaged example, but as &quot;damage&quot; goes, holes are preferable to scratches or corrosion and stuff like that, because the hole has a <i>story</i>.&nbsp; Sometimes that story is apparent and sometimes it must be imagined. </p><p><br /></p><p>But &quot;holey&quot; coins can be a great bargain, once a collector gets over his reflexive distaste for them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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