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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2584002, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with Ides&#039; take on this one but it remains a fact that I prefer less and would pay less considering the smoothing but do not know whether I would have liked the pre-smoothing coin better or not at all.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I watched a TV show on painting restoration where they showed the process of making an oil painting worth the millions such things sell for.&nbsp; They cleaned it removing the dirt of time that stuck to the surface.&nbsp; We do that with our coins.&nbsp; This painting had a tear through the canvas.&nbsp; They showed several steps where the rip was glued with gesso and overpainted with a non-oil paint before the entire thing was sprayed with the oil painting equivalent of RenWax to make it even and pretty.&nbsp; Each step was done with reversibility in mind.&nbsp; The glue was weak; the colors added were not oil but water based so the whole repair could be wiped off.&nbsp; I was envious of the painting crowd since they found a way to repair the appearance of the work without so much changing the surviving parts so a later, more expert, future restorer could revert to the most recent starting point.&nbsp; We don&#039;t have such high tech techniques as would seem necessary by the fact that few of our coins are worth the millions of some of those oils.&nbsp; I&#039;m glad we have coins for me that don&#039;t require so much attention.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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