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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2715126, member: 19463&quot;]When I first saw this post I thought the idea was to show coins that were bad on the day they were made but it soon migrated to coins that became ugly mostly due to corrosion.&nbsp; What follows is an advertisement:&nbsp; Sometimes coins can actually add interest, character or even beauty as a result of their imperfections.&nbsp; I believed this when I did my page on Wabi-Sabi ancients.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wabisabi.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wabisabi.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wabisabi.html</a></p><p>To me the best example of this is the toned gold from being too close to Mt. Vesuvius (Boscoreale Hoard) but I also see added beauty in some overstrikes where it looks like we have a ghost lurking in the background.&nbsp;&nbsp; Many of you would not see this last class as adding beauty but might see some interest or character.&nbsp; Sometimes the concepts of best and worst can merge.&nbsp; I see beauty in the confusion below:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]613861[/ATTACH] </p><p>...and the copper highlighting interspersed with the gold.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]613860[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Beauty is in the eye of the beholder (unless you beholdin&#039; a mirror in which case we call it vanity).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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