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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 24695982, member: 110226&quot;]I do see indications of smoothing in the fields.&nbsp; Would you be more specific, with photos, of the tooling?&nbsp; I&#039;ve gone over the coin with 20 power magnification, and I don&#039;t see any overt signs.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin has been cleaned, most recently by me, with distilled water, to mitigate an area of deposit between the two figures.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin must have been quite encrusted originally, and cleaned.&nbsp; The surfaces still retain much of the uneven brown and green deposits.&nbsp; The mechanical cleaning was very extensive.&nbsp; But as for tooling to create a left facing profile for the right figure, I simply do not seen signs of engraving, which would necessitate the removal of metal from the right facing profile and the creation of the left facing profile.&nbsp; Further, I would expect to see tooling marks that create a depression in the area where the right facing head was modified.&nbsp; A fair amount of metal would have be removed, and the left facing design added.&nbsp; There simply would not be enough of the head remaining to do a convincing, proportional rendering consistent with that of the left figure&#039;s head.&nbsp; Metal would have to be added, and that would mean heating the coin&#039;s surface to make the added metal bond properly.&nbsp; That process would also alter the entire surface of the coin, something that I do not see.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not sure what you are referring to regarding the right hand.&nbsp; The surfaces are somewhat rough and the die engraving is not top notch, typical for this period, and as noted there has been cleaning/smoothing on both sides.&nbsp; Again, I don&#039;t see the removal or addition of features on the reverse figures, but maybe I&#039;m missing something.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I am the first one to admit that I might be mistaken, but this is my view of the matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1576376[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1576380[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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