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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3673192, member: 19463&quot;]Perhaps this is a time to mention something I observe and ask if this is accurate.&nbsp; It seems that certain types are more likely to have been smoothed/tooled than others.&nbsp; This certainly is one of them.&nbsp; The coin is not rare. Nice ones are.&nbsp; Whenever there is a popular coin that exists in numbers the temptation to turn goods into fines and fines into mint states seems obvious.&nbsp; I have always wanted one of these but finding a smooth but not smoothed has made it an unlikely dream.&nbsp; The same might be said for Cleopatra portraits, Judaea Captas, 193 AD AE (not Septimius) and, for a reason I have never really understood, Bosporous kings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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