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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1815244, member: 42773&quot;]There&#039;s something to be said for the visceral enjoyment of handling coins. You can do that with worn pieces without sacrificing their market value, which is minimal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most ancient coins have been cleaned, and many have hard patinas, so there really isn&#039;t much you can do to damage them by normal handling. It&#039;s one of the pleasures of collecting ancients that collectors of moderns miss out on, and understandably so: you wouldn&#039;t want to handle mint state coins like pocket change.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pass your coins around, let people hold them, feel the history in their hands. Since some of them are already holed, hell - go ahead and make a necklace of them. There&#039;s much more to this hobby than obsessing about grades and values.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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