They are using the eBay definition of “mint condition”, I see.
Have you seen what mint looks like after 1900 years?
I have some coins in that condition, I guess this means I can get “top dollar” for them! 😆
No low-ballers, I know what I got!
Just going by that picture, archeologists have a curious definition of “almost mint”.
The normal expected condition for a sword of that era is a mostly rusted away chunk of metal, when after 1900 years you have shiny metal and intact wood and leather, it really is near mint.
“Apart from the sanitation, education, irrigation, roads, aqueducts, and dumping artifacts in the Dead Sea… what have the Romans ever done for us?”
Brought peace?
-The people’s front of judea. Bunch of splitters! -We are the people’s front!