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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 2584094, member: 8959&quot;]Thank you all very much for your opinions, which I have read with great attention.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ken essentially confirms what my inexperienced eyes and &#039;gut-feel&#039; were telling me:</p><p>The area of tooling that &#039;offends&#039; me the most is on the seated future. In my opinion it looks almost grotesque. The drapery has been reworked and looks unnatural.</p><p>I also feel the reverse fields have been tooled/smoothed (to remove roughness I guess), made evident by the fact the branch on the seated figure has disappeared. This surface tooling, however, is still within my tolerance level.</p><p>I also feel the reverse legends had been strengthened and worked-on a bit, but again, this is to me at least, is on the verge of being &#039;acceptable&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is the tooling of the seated figure that bothers me most, and If I keep this coin is because the bust itself is pleasing and of good style.</p><p>The price I paid, even If I do not remember it with certainty, was probably in the 200-300 DM range back in 1990 (probably $250-350 today), so not a great financial loss and at that level I can afford to keep it and not have a sour feeling about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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