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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3178639, member: 76194&quot;]If I had your line of thinking, I&#039;d have never become an ancient coins collector. <b>Every single ancient coin is a &quot;problem coin.&quot; </b>By virtue of 1,600+ years of burrial, even the best preserved ancient coin is a cleaned coin. Add to that the prolific ancient practices of writing grafitty on a coin, clipping coins, test-cutting coins, or adding banker&#039;s marks to coins, and over 2/3 of surviving ancient coins have post-mint damage caused by ancient people and merchants before these coins were burried. After discovery, many ancient coins were improperly cleaned/polished etc., by the private individuals who discovered them and cleaned them in the 17th through early 20th century, in an era before &quot;proper cleaning techniques&quot; was even a concept.&nbsp; Someone like you would go certifiably nuts if you were in a gathering of ancients collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why I cut problem coins a break, because every coin I collect is literally a problem coin by virtue of any of the things I mentioned above, yet they are still beautiful and important historically. </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is suffering from crystalization of the silver after 2,500 years in the soil. Thats why it looks so bumpy and rough.&nbsp; Still a beauty, and still worth collecting if you ask me. Just because it is not perfect, it doesn&#039;t all of the sudden become trash.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]818627[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This other coin has a deep test cut on the reverse, right beneath the owl&#039;s wing (at the edge by 8 o&#039;clock). You want me to throw away 2,400 years of history? Is it not still worthy of being collected and appreciated because it is less than perfect?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]818629[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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