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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;octavius, post: 3572421, member: 100777&quot;]I noticed on my sestertius of Agrippina struck under Caligula, her portrait demonstrates the same phenominon - you can still discern the visible curls underneath the wear around her temporal area. I think this is due to the way the dies were cut, and they just wear that way. My sestertius of Agrippina struck by Claudius also has evidence of this, but less so due to wear. I don&#039;t see evidence of tooling on any of these coins, your&#039;s included. A very respected dealer once told me that the word &quot;tooling&quot; could mean anything from overzealous cleaning to reengraving. Smoothing and cleaning are expected on the bronzes we collect which have passed nearly two thousand years in the earth. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]951838[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]951840[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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