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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1612274, member: 12789&quot;]I collect on eye appeal, a nice fully struck design with a minimum of problems.&nbsp; Wear is a real issue when it comes to some ancient and medieval coins - how do you really gauge how much wear some early coins have, when they were cast as some Syracuse and other Greeks were, others were handstruck from dies that were unique and not created by the dozens from a hub etc?</p><p><br /></p><p>Graded coins appeal to a certain genre of collectors.&nbsp; Maybe I am old school, but I prefer my coins untombed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thankfully none of my ancients are tombed.&nbsp; I do have one or two Scots silver coins, a penny and a groat that are tombed and I haven&#039;t bothered to crack them out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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