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Message:: [QUOTE="Aethelred, post: 2523547, member: 81808"]I have mixed feelings on this. On the negative side: As someone who loves ancient history and coins I hate to see one destroyed to make a trinket. Cutting it down like this is a little like being the guy who killed the last Dodo bird, you are destroying a small part of our collective cultural heritage. I also do not understand why someone would want to wear a ring with Caius Caesar on it. To me this would be like wanting to wear a ring that had Hitler or Bin Laden on it, kinda sick. On the positive side: You own the coin and can make a handsome payday off of it, who am I to tell you not to do so? The coin as it was was not that nice, it would never be more than a hole filler for someone looking for a nicer example and it is by no means a rare type. It isn't like you lucked into the only known sestertius of Otho and destroyed it. This might be wishing for too much, but perhaps the end consumer (who will clearly be in possession of more money than taste) will realize what he or she has and want an unmolested example. Maybe they will study Roman history and coinage and come to appreciate both. Maybe they will even grow to regret being the cause of this coins destruction and work to preserve and protect other ancient artifacts that future generations have a right to appreciate.[/QUOTE]