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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;H8_modern, post: 2937954, member: 28531&quot;]My earlier response was kind of a cop out so I thought I’d show a concrete example. It’s not an ancient but this is a coin I find fascinating for the life it lead rather than the coin itself. It’s a large silver coin with great details but someone scratched across it to “cut the throat” of the king’s image. That the king’s head was actually removed only 3 years after this coin was minted makes you wonder when was the coin defaced? It wasn’t a coin of the common man so what was the status of the owner?</p><p>Numismatically, this coin is ruined so there’s no point in selling it but as a piece of history I think it’s priceless.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://imageshack.com/a/img923/9008/CIVgWE.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://imageshack.com/a/img922/4162/1bTG3D.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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