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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 1901145, member: 39084&quot;]Nobody can know the future, but it&#039;s my belief (as well as my hope) that numismatists will always value untouched and untooled coins more highly than those that have been re-engraved.&nbsp; Even novices eventually realize that untouched coins are more desirable than manipulated coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the possibility that in the future it may become impossible to distinguish well-tooled coins from untooled coins, there is always the coin&#039;s provenance/pedigree upon which one can rely.&nbsp; Forgeries and fakes have always been an unfortunate element of art/coin/stamp collecting, and especially in the art world experts have been fooled many times, so knowledge and expertise remain the best defenses against being duped by high-quality forgeries.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nevertheless, I remain very wary of the trend to ignore or gloss over tooling when evaluating ancient coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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