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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 8215501, member: 42773&quot;]I think collectors of modern coinage dabbling in ancients drive this sort of thing, at least in part. I was one of those collectors once, and it took some time to see beyond the <i>grade</i> of an ancient coin, and into its soul - its numismatic, historic, and aesthetic qualities, rather than the sharpness of its devices and smoothness of its fields. Recently one of the forum members offered me this Ptolemaic &quot;hockey puck&quot; and I happily bought it because despite its lower grade (Fine), it is utterly and completely un-doctored...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1441989[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Ptolemaic bronzes (especially larger denominations) are notorious for attracting toolers that would turn a $200 coin into a $700 coin. Sometimes it works. Sometimes the uneducated or unsuspecting buy the altered coin. Sometimes the buyer simply doesn&#039;t care. CNG sold <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=116288" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=116288" rel="nofollow">this coin</a> for $740 plus juice and was clearly marked <b>tooled</b>...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1441992[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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