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<p>[QUOTE="Fugio1, post: 7798822, member: 89970"]I'm no expert, evidenced by the many smoothed and tooled coins I have inadvertently purchased in my years as a collector, but I see no evidence of device or legend tooling with this Trajan sestertius. The obverse has obviously been smoothed but carefully and expertly so. A coin showing this much surface corrosion would have been processed to make it marketable. This includes surface smoothing. The reverse doesn't look to be smoothed as uniformly as the obverse, except perhaps some slight smoothing in the right field. The reverse surfaces appear uniform from the field outward to the rim including between the letters of the legend. Even expertly smoothed coins will typically show differences in texture between the field and the peripheral legend. Neither side shows any trace of directional lines that are characteristic of an unskilled processor.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion, the more distracting issue with this coin is the corrosion, which necessitated some smoothing, not the smoothing itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fugio1, post: 7798822, member: 89970"]I'm no expert, evidenced by the many smoothed and tooled coins I have inadvertently purchased in my years as a collector, but I see no evidence of device or legend tooling with this Trajan sestertius. The obverse has obviously been smoothed but carefully and expertly so. A coin showing this much surface corrosion would have been processed to make it marketable. This includes surface smoothing. The reverse doesn't look to be smoothed as uniformly as the obverse, except perhaps some slight smoothing in the right field. The reverse surfaces appear uniform from the field outward to the rim including between the letters of the legend. Even expertly smoothed coins will typically show differences in texture between the field and the peripheral legend. Neither side shows any trace of directional lines that are characteristic of an unskilled processor. In my opinion, the more distracting issue with this coin is the corrosion, which necessitated some smoothing, not the smoothing itself.[/QUOTE]
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