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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 1695689, member: 39084&quot;][ATTACH]257613.vB[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH]257614.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So, based on my criteria, my initial thinking on these two coins was:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Condition</b>: Both are EF or about EF, so this criteria is easily fulfilled.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Portrait style</b>: Arguably, the portrait style of coin #2 might be viewed as a little better, but it&#039;s close enough so that both of them exhibit good style and fulfill this criteria.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Smoothing and tooling</b>: Coin #1 exhibits what I (and my dealer) would consider some normal smoothing in the fields, but other than that, the coin is in a fairly benign state.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, even to my not-very-trained eye, coin #2 appeared just a little too sharp in both the legend and portrait areas.&nbsp; But I don&#039;t have the 30+ years of evaluating Roman bronzes that my dealer has, so I asked him his thoughts on this coin.&nbsp; His description of this coin?&nbsp; &quot;Heavily tooled.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Not surprisingly, the auction site makes no reference to the tooling of this coin that is so obvious to my dealer. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As they said in ancient Rome, caveat emptor![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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