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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2239286, member: 19463&quot;]This last one is not a &#039;hole&#039; defect but a coin that involved a hole/plug as part of its production.&nbsp; That is not a fault it is just coooool!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m still pretty much onboard with the 1/5 of regular value number&nbsp; BUT holes placed through important features (portrait) are worth less.&nbsp; Holes made in antiquity are not as detracting as modern holes.&nbsp; Holes made for a good reason are not defects.&nbsp; My example of that is the gouged out countermark on this Stratonicea AE35.&nbsp; To me the coin is worth more than the same coin would be in normal state but equally bad condition.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]441440[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My other recent hole is an Anonymous A2 Byzantine which has a hole stretched out.&nbsp; I decided it was a coin I wanted but I&#039;m not sure I&#039;d pay 5x for it hole free except for the real reason I bought it which had nothing to do with the hole.&nbsp; I liked the form of the A&#039;s used on the reverse.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]441441[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, when a coin is fourree and holed and worn, you can&#039;t take off for each problem separately.&nbsp; The hole on the Michael IV solidus below was $3 in 1990.&nbsp; The coin was free but I did have to buy the hole.&nbsp;&nbsp; Today I&#039;d pay every bit of that for the coin....and more.&nbsp; The seller could not understand why anyone would buy it so I bought it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]441442[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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