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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 5185492, member: 105571&quot;]Let me tell this story even though it is only related to the thread by virtue of being about a tooled coin.&nbsp; I was attending my local coin club meeting a couple of years ago and one of the members who is a smart cookie and an experienced collector tossed me a major TPG slab encapsulating a Draped Bust dollar.&nbsp; It was straight-graded EF-40 and looked to be a very nice coin and I said so.&nbsp; Here was the exchange, more or less:</p><p><br /></p><p>Him:&nbsp;&nbsp; I won the on-line auction and judged the coin from the photographs which means I&nbsp; was relying to some extent on the TPG&#039;s grade.&nbsp; I am so hacked off.&nbsp; Look with your loupe at the junction of the field and the right edge of Liberty&#039;s hair, face and bust and tell me what you see.</p><p><br /></p><p>Me:&nbsp; I think I see a little line, almost like a doubling of the bust&#039;s outline at the junction.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure I am seeing what I described.</p><p><br /></p><p>Him:&nbsp; No, you are seeing it accurately.&nbsp; This coin has been tooled by a fairly skilled person for the purpose of more sharply defining the outline of the devices.&nbsp; Pretty well done and impossible to see from a photograph.</p><p><br /></p><p>Me:&nbsp; You spent several thousand dollars on this coin.&nbsp; What are you going to do?</p><p><br /></p><p>Him:&nbsp; I&#039;m going to shove it up the auction houses&#039;s and grader&#039;s posterior and get my money back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Several months later:</p><p><br /></p><p>Me:&nbsp; Did you?</p><p><br /></p><p>Him:&nbsp; Yes and with great satisfaction!</p><p><br /></p><p>I learned another very valuable lesson from this and this time not at my own expense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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