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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7929074, member: 19463&quot;]I like the concept and see it as increasingly useful now that so many people seem to favor fully scrubbed ancients somehow fooling themselves into believing that surfaces 2000 years old will have natural sparkle.&nbsp; By modern standards, all ancients are &#039;details&#039; coins.&nbsp; The question is whether the cleaning/conservation was done skillfully or with a floor buffer.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have always had a fondness for coins cleaned so as to have contrast between the high points and the low.&nbsp; I am not so naive as to believe that these popped out of the dirt this way but I am not from the group that believes worthwhile coins had to spend their entire life in some drawer hermetically sealed from the elements. A few:</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1370644[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1370645[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1370646[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1370649[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1370650[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1370652[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1370653[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1370654[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370655[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1370659[/ATTACH] <img src="https://a4.pbase.com/o9/88/582688/1/162034636.8U2A3kvr.rx7182bb3129.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://a4.pbase.com/o3/88/582688/1/121897860.i81usJZ0.rx3660bb1921.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I believe surfaces, &#039;natural&#039; or &#039;assisted&#039; are more important to a coin than the letter grade.&nbsp; Contrasting surfaces can be &#039;eye candy&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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