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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nemo, post: 1901318, member: 58462&quot;]This is an interesting thread. Years ago I purchased a very nice looking, rare but tooled, Vespasian sestertius. The tooling was very well done, relatively minor and confined to enhancing the reverse legend.&nbsp; </p><p>It didn&#039;t matter to me at first but over time it began to bother me and rather than enjoy the coin when I held it, I would find myself examining it to see if there may have been more tooling than I originally thought.&nbsp; </p><p>I finally could take it no more, decided to sell it with full disclosure and ended up with a 10% profit to boot.&nbsp; The buyer told me he preferred the &quot;higher quality&quot; of my coin over the roughness of a non-tooled example he was considering at the same price.&nbsp; This was a four digit coin, I was amazed how quickly it sold.</p><p>My rule now is minor smoothing perhaps for a very rare coin, but never tooling.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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