Conserved - Numismatic conservation involves examination, scientific analysis, and a reliance upon an extensive base of numismatic knowledge to determine the nature of a coin's state of preservation and the extent of any damage.
Conserved/Restored
What this really means is that a coin was altered in some way to make it look better. It is NO LONGER original. The problem I have with this is the folks who get a coin conserved and then sell as original.
Note: Whomever conserved this example was apparently misreading the exergual mark as something like . AND instead of the actual SMNA, which is visible.
It has been found that parity is not conserved in the weak force and so the weak force is not invariant under mirror reflection.
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This gorgeous specimen has been conserved very carefully over the past 141 years and stands today as one of the most elegant, most beautiful gold coins of any denomination from this decade.
Of course their determination was that the coins were expertly conserved and hence were able to be slabbed. My determination is that they pick and choose whose cleaned coins they will slab and certify.
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