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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2683838, member: 76194&quot;]Not all coins can be perfect. In fact, most aren&#039;t. Perfection costs a lot, and most of us mere mortals on budgets can&#039;t always afford to be so luxurious.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take my Commodus. I love it and wouldn&#039;t trade it, but definitely far from perfect.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]600470[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Commodus. A.D. 177-192. AR denarius. Rome mint, struck A.D. 179. </b></p><p>(18.0 mm, 3.47 g, 12 h). Rome mint.</p><p>L AVREL COMMODVS AVG, laureate head right / TR P IIII IMP III COS II P P, Victory seated left, holding patera and palm. RIC 666; BMCRE 801; RSC 775.</p><p><br /></p><p>It has a tiny flan chip, two very minor flan cracks, signs of crystallization within the coin, and perhaps even a hint of porosity, some mineral deposits stuck to the surface on the reverse, and when struck the reverse dies were nearing the end of their lives (as evidenced by the weak reverse legend with some lettering almost missing).</p><p><br /></p><p>I still don&#039;t care. The portrait of Commodus called out to me, and despite the laundry list of defects, I still think it a pretty coin, and in my opinion any average ancients collector would still enjoy it (and even if the rest don&#039;t, I could care less. I like it.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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