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<p>[QUOTE="Parthicus, post: 5172529, member: 81887"]If you like the coin, you should buy it, regardless of what anyone else says. Personally, I don't find that cut distracting and would have no problem buying that coin. My denarius of Julius Caesar has a banker's mark on the head, but I don't think it is too distracting and I still love that coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for how it happened: It looks too regular to be an accident, and not big enough to be a "damnatio memoriae". Someone just carving a coin to mark it as theirs would probably choose the field instead of the portrait. So, by process of elimination, it's probably a test cut to check that the coin was indeed silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Parthicus, post: 5172529, member: 81887"]If you like the coin, you should buy it, regardless of what anyone else says. Personally, I don't find that cut distracting and would have no problem buying that coin. My denarius of Julius Caesar has a banker's mark on the head, but I don't think it is too distracting and I still love that coin. As for how it happened: It looks too regular to be an accident, and not big enough to be a "damnatio memoriae". Someone just carving a coin to mark it as theirs would probably choose the field instead of the portrait. So, by process of elimination, it's probably a test cut to check that the coin was indeed silver.[/QUOTE]
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