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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 7805267, member: 101855&quot;]As an inexperienced ancient coin buyer, does “tooled” really make that much of a difference in a piece that is corroded and has been processed to get the worst of the crud and raised corrosion spots off of it? It seems to me that the vast majority of these coins have been worked on, by necessity, and that comes with the territory. It is only natural because copper is far more reactive than silver and especially gold. </p><p><br /></p><p>A great many of the surviving U.S. early copper coins have been worked on, and they are only a couple of hundred years old. Many of these ancient pieces are close to 2,000 years old and have been in the ground. </p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at the coin in the OP, I would say that a lot more of it has been smoothed out in addition to the spots the poster highlighted. This is part of the reason why I stick to buying silver coins when they are available.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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