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Message:: [QUOTE="JBGood, post: 2400141, member: 38987"]Here is my contribution to this fascinating topic. Prior to coins my collecting focus was fossils and minerals (or as my wife calls them, rocks). In these categories, "cleaning" even "patching and gluing" is expected since most are embedded in some matrix. Even the T-Rex at the American Museum of Natural History is made from several individuals. It is not the fossilized skeleton of A T-Rex but of several T-Rex. So Im not that freaked out that my Druses by Tiberius (one of my pricier coins) has had work done. I love this coin and I don't plan on selling it and I have never purchased a coin with the intention to sell it for a profit. Th reverse shows sign of I-don't-know-what but it looks like tooling to remove something and "patching" to fill in a gouge. I posted this coin before I purchased it in late 2014 and most of ya'll said it was an acceptable level of "work". Some were more critical but by and large I felt good about the purchase. In truth, my big concern was "is it real?". And I was reassured that it was real with some work. Any hoo, here it is! Any new thoughts would be appreciated.<img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fdfpfmltq984k.cloudfront.net%2Fproduct_image%2F52%2F6%2F5%2F6rRKA7k92M5j3cxZtC42H9p78fFgw4.jpg&hash=99ed9f5f6c3563bfa9c2d4195a5b2da0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[ATTACH=full]494413[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]494414[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]