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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 1859009, member: 39084&quot;]Pretty much all ancients bronzes have been smoothed to some extent, so some smoothing is usually not considered an issue in a coin.&nbsp; However, aggressive smoothing that borders on tooling is usually detrimental to a coin&#039;s value, as is re-patination.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Somewhat surprisingly, re-patination seems to be less of an issue currently than just a few years ago, although personally I&#039;m not 100% comfortable with this idea (but I wouldn&#039;t let it prevent me from obtaining an otherwise good coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the devices in this coin aren&#039;t tooled, it&#039;s my belief that the incredible detail was enough for bidders to put aside the high degree of smoothing and re-patination.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think the &quot;prices realized&quot; for this auction have been posted yet, so I&#039;ll wait a little longer before revealing the results.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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