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Message:: [QUOTE="Numisnewbiest, post: 7926405, member: 99613"]Boy, here's a thread right up my alley, unfortunately. Here's a coin of Agrippa that I wanted for the longest time, as it appeared in the seller's listing: [ATTACH=full]1369755[/ATTACH]I loved it, but something looked "off", and there were all kinds of little fibers stuck all over it, so I suspected a lot of wax was on it. I sent it in to (I forgot where) for a professional numismatist cleaning to get rid of the fibers and see what else was going on with the coin, and it turned out to have been painted...painted!...and then filled in with a ton of wax! So I asked for all of that nonsense to be removed, but the coin ended up down to the brassy level, and I wanted it dark brown like it looked in the original listing, so it was "repatinated" to brown. I got exactly what I asked for and they did a great job of cleaning the garbage off of the coin, but man...I really, really don't like it now and don't even want it. Here's probably the worst coin photo ever taken, just now, with my crappy phone camera. Not a real good representation of the coin as it looks now, but close: [ATTACH=full]1369761[/ATTACH] Naturally, I paid the going rate for the coin, and I take it as a lesson learned all the way around, but it's a heartbreaker.[/QUOTE]