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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 4771581, member: 75143&quot;]I understand your viewpoint entirely.</p><p><br /></p><p>however, using Occam&#039;s Razor (the simplest explanation is the most likely)</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two options:</p><p>1. This particular coin somehow escaped all contact with oxygen, acidic soil, water, sulfur, and every other environmental contaminant.</p><p>2. This particular coin was very carefully <i>conserved </i>([USER=33176]@Kentucky[/USER]) to the point where the coin no longer shows any environmental effects.</p><p><br /></p><p>Conservation is very common in the art world; there are still 18-th and 17-th century restorations of classical statues that to this day are debated which parts of original and which parts are restorations. Basically, if someone is good enough at what they do, they can make it look like damage never happened.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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