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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 2583995, member: 39084&quot;]The smoothing on this coin is within the normal range of smoothing that I&#039;ve seen on Roman bronzes.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t find this amount of smoothing to be excessive or a reason not to buy this bronze.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m hard pressed to find any obvious tooling.&nbsp; <i>Maybe</i> on the obverse portrait between the ear and the radiate crown -- possibly the delineation has been enhanced a bit.&nbsp; Also on the reverse, the area between the legend and bead of the coin <i>might</i> have been smoothed/dug out a little more deeply to enhance the separation of the letters.&nbsp; The seated figure might have been a little bit re-engraved.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is that what you&#039;re thinking?&nbsp; Overall, this coin does not scream out &quot;tooled!&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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