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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 2583226, member: 39084&quot;]I would never denigrate another&#039;s preferences but it appears that my attempts at providing insight into ancient collectors&#039; standards (as they differ from modern collectors) have been misinterpreted as discourteous.&nbsp; This isn&#039;t the case.&nbsp; You&#039;re absolutely entitled to your preference for minimally cleaned ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rather, I&#039;ve been trying to elucidate the fundamental differences between collectors of ancient vs. collectors of modern coins.&nbsp; Dougsmit said it best -- collecting ancients is almost an entirely different hobby from collecting modern coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cleaning issue is one of those major differences, and as far as I can determine from literature about ancient coins, this standard hasn&#039;t changed in the centuries since authors started writing about collecting ancients.&nbsp; I&#039;ll accept your assertion that the standards for cleaning modern coins has changed in the last 50 years, but as far as I can determine, this simply isn&#039;t true for ancients.&nbsp; That&#039;s one of the points that I was trying to make.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You can&#039;t possibly know whether or not this true, and I&#039;d be surprised if it were.&nbsp; In the late 1950s and early 1960s I collected U.S. coins out of circulation.&nbsp; If you started collecting coins more than 55 - 60 years ago, then you might be a bit older than I, but probably not by much.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, &quot;the hobby&quot; to which you refer isn&#039;t quite the same hobby in which I&#039;m engaged.&nbsp; There isn&#039;t just one monolithic &quot;coin collecting&quot; hobby.&nbsp; From the context of your post, it appears that &quot;the hobby&quot; to which you refer is collecting modern coins and you&#039;d prefer to have those standards be the same in the hobby of collecting ancient coins.&nbsp; In my experience, this simply isn&#039;t the case.&nbsp; I had to learn and relearn about collecting ancients vs. what I remembered (very little) from collecting moderns, and I wasn&#039;t in a position to impose my own preferences on a hobby to which I was a newcomer.&nbsp; I had no choice except to be open-minded about my new hobby and learn from my dealer as well as others far more experienced than I&#039;ll ever be. </p><p><br /></p><p>It was my hope that this discussion of your preferences vs. ancient coin collectors&#039; standards might provide some insights for everyone involved in this thread, but unfortunately that doesn&#039;t appear to be happening.&nbsp; Nevertheless, you&#039;re always invited and welcome to post your ancient coins in this forum, along with your comments and observations about why those coins in your collection appeal to you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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