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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 113537, member: 283&quot;]OK. It doesn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>I realise my views might be contrary but i&#039;m kind of `weathered in&#039; to seeing coins that have been made into key fobs, pendants, brooches, pins etcetera. They all tell a tale of their history. Your reactionto the perception of `damage&#039;&nbsp; will be down to your reason for collecting in the first place.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, some coins in mediaeval times were holed and worn as charms against disease and evil. To get hold of such coins usually carries a premium!</p><p><br /></p><p>Some coins (especially silver coinage of Malta circa 1600 -1800&#039;s) are nigh on impossible to find without scars of having been part of some jewellery item or another.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some coins again you wouldn&#039;t stand an earthly chance of owning unless they had been considered `damaged&#039; by the big bucks collectors due to their scarcity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet other `damaged&#039; coins carry a premium because some (misguided?) love struck individual has decided to carve the initials of a loved one on it and nowadays it magically falls into a category called `love tokens&#039;..... and carries a premium. Weird eh?</p><p><br /></p><p>Then we have `carved coins&#039; such as hobo nickels ....or the trench art of the Franco- Prussian war / the Boer War, and WWI.</p><p><br /></p><p>We also have smugglers pieces, pill box talers, enamelled coins.....etc. etc. etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>We also (least I forget to make mention) have `officially butchered coins in the form of cut coins, holey dollars and `bits&#039;, countermarked / counterstamped coins, and chop marked coins. All of which are highly collectable. So....why should your damaged coin raise a tear or two when others in much worse condition don&#039;t?</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it a shame that the coin you have is `holed&#039; and that you can afford it? Or is it a bounty that you have it in your possession because someone else didn&#039;t appreciate the value of it as highly as you?</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure....wouldn&#039;t it be great if we all had the money necessary to get perfect examples of everything. I don&#039;t, and i&#039;m pretty sure that that goes for most others too. As such, for some coins in my possession I am gratefull in the main that someone had the foresight to `damage&#039; them in the past, and that some collectors are too myopic to realise that some coins are REALLY rare whether `damaged&#039; or not. </p><p><br /></p><p>The main factor however is that perceptions of `damage&#039; change. They are `fashions&#039;.&nbsp; At one time it was fashionable to clean coins/ wear them / enamel them/ coat them with clear resin.... etc. Who is to say that a particular `fashion&#039; won&#039;t come around again? ;-)</p><p><br /></p><p>Ian</p><p>`Holy coins Batman!&#039;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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