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<p>[QUOTE="Ancientdia, post: 5176059, member: 116080"]I suppose it depends on what you mean by "ruined". It could definitely have been done more sympathetically and my best guess is that they used some sort of polish but then I got it at a very reasonable price and with that taken into account it didn't particularly bother me as a collector. Asides the loss of patina, it's still one of my favorites to be honest. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I agree. </p><p><br /></p><p>Although there might also be something to do with national preferences. Curiously, I was looking at my French silver coins and it suddenly occurred to me that those that I had bought from French dealers all appeared very shiny and had clearly been polished (even my Louis XVI 4 sols from the 17th century). Whereas al of those I had bought from private individuals or sellers from other countries appeared to have at least some patina left. </p><p><br /></p><p>I know from the antiques trade that French people often like "shiny" things (I don't mean that in a derogatory sense, it's just their own aesthetics) so it might be that many French dealers carry that over to their coins. Just a hypothesis.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ancientdia, post: 5176059, member: 116080"]I suppose it depends on what you mean by "ruined". It could definitely have been done more sympathetically and my best guess is that they used some sort of polish but then I got it at a very reasonable price and with that taken into account it didn't particularly bother me as a collector. Asides the loss of patina, it's still one of my favorites to be honest. I agree. Although there might also be something to do with national preferences. Curiously, I was looking at my French silver coins and it suddenly occurred to me that those that I had bought from French dealers all appeared very shiny and had clearly been polished (even my Louis XVI 4 sols from the 17th century). Whereas al of those I had bought from private individuals or sellers from other countries appeared to have at least some patina left. I know from the antiques trade that French people often like "shiny" things (I don't mean that in a derogatory sense, it's just their own aesthetics) so it might be that many French dealers carry that over to their coins. Just a hypothesis.[/QUOTE]
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