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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 8286137, member: 44316&quot;]Hello! This is the ancient-coin forum. If you have collected ancients for a long time you know that smoothing is not the end of the world, and even a bit of cutting into metal by accident (as between the left two columns) is not unusual. Many interesting and desirable ancient coins have been abused at some stage in their long history. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The next generation of collectors will decide what they value, but if they reject the OP coin on the grounds of a few scratches they will be missing out on some very nice coins (like that one). What do you like about ancient coins? History? Art? Architecture? There is a long list of things to like, but too many new collectors think it all comes down to &quot;grade&quot; and &quot;smoothing&quot; and &quot;tooling.&quot; Why collect ancients at all if that is where your values reside?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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