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<p>[QUOTE="IdesOfMarch01, post: 3052178, member: 39084"]At the very least, delete all your cookies that have eBay in them:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]764018[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If you do this, most of those eBay ads will disappear.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My first suggestion is to compare this coin to others of the same type. You can use ACSEARCH or CNG's research option to find them. You'll see that non-tooled coins do not exhibit the sharp edges on the devices and legends that this coin exhibits. Normal circulation wear simply does not leave sharp edges -- all edges will be smoothed (rounded) to some extent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tooling can be quite subtle and difficult to detect, but the tooling on this coin is so obvious that by doing comparison to other non-tooled coins, you can easily see the differences between untooled normal wear vs. normal wear that's been tooled to look sharper.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IdesOfMarch01, post: 3052178, member: 39084"]At the very least, delete all your cookies that have eBay in them: [ATTACH=full]764018[/ATTACH] If you do this, most of those eBay ads will disappear. My first suggestion is to compare this coin to others of the same type. You can use ACSEARCH or CNG's research option to find them. You'll see that non-tooled coins do not exhibit the sharp edges on the devices and legends that this coin exhibits. Normal circulation wear simply does not leave sharp edges -- all edges will be smoothed (rounded) to some extent. Tooling can be quite subtle and difficult to detect, but the tooling on this coin is so obvious that by doing comparison to other non-tooled coins, you can easily see the differences between untooled normal wear vs. normal wear that's been tooled to look sharper.[/QUOTE]
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