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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2824911, member: 51347&quot;]Folks, please understand this is the <b><i>ANCIENTS Forum</i></b>... &quot;Rules&quot; for handling Ancients are much different than for Moderns. You can HANDLE ancient coins with your hands, it is encouraged.&nbsp; This helps in verifying an ancient coin and enables the owner to enjoy them.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is exactly why I no longer collect Moderns.&nbsp; LOL, gloves, masks, plastic sealed tombs, etc. have taken the collector far away from the original Hobby.&nbsp; People have collected coins for <b><i>THOUSANDS of years</i></b>.&nbsp; It has only been in the last 30 years that we have &quot;sanitized&quot; the Hobby by sealing up an item (coin) that was <i><b>designed</b></i> to be circulated and handled by people!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>These are SELLER pics...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]664448[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]664449[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]664450[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]664451[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]664453[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>These are some of MY Pics:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]664455[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]664456[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, thanks to [USER=42773]@John Anthony[/USER] for sacrificing his hand so that Coins can be enjoyed!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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