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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3176144, member: 76194&quot;]Here is a coin damaged by an ancient Greek merchant. If you look at the 4 o&#039;clock position, part of the edge has been clipped off. This was done by a suspicious merchant sometime around 300 BC in some Greek town or city near modern day Ukraine. He probably thought the coin was a silver-plated forgery with a bronze core.&nbsp; His suspicions were for nothing, as this coin is silver through and through, but 2,300 years later we can still appreciate the moment of joy when he discovered he wasn&#039;t cheated and he had a good coin. Sadly though, that does mean the coin has a nice gash where he clipped it rather aggressively, almost causing the flan to crack.</p><p><br /></p><p>Makes for a good story though.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]817330[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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