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Whenever somebody polishes ancient coins I wish they would display the dirty version beside it.
The very first time I ever saw an aureus up close irl it was kind of hard to believe it was real. The fine detail on the inscription, the portrait... looked like it came straight out of a laser engraver to my then-uneducated mind. Still baffling what they managed to pull off on such a scale.