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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MIGuy, post: 25249953, member: 116145&quot;]You all are a sharp bunch, but it is &quot;smoothed&quot; and I&#039;m not precisely sure what that means in this case - was it heated?&nbsp; I don&#039;t know, but I think it looks great and like the coin a lot (plus the price was right).&nbsp; I never would have known it was altered except for PCGS on this one - meanwhile I luckily have a lower &quot;straight&quot; F12 graded one and I&#039;m still in the hunt for a straight graded AU for my top set.&nbsp; Do any of you have any experience with &quot;Smoothed&quot; coins?&nbsp; Do you think it&#039;s better or worse than Holed or Tooled?&nbsp; Frankly, I think this particular coin is on par with a lightly cleaned coin, but I really dislike the way this alteration is described - and I&#039;d be furious if I bought one raw, thinking it was straight gradable and got this kind of news after submitting it.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/news/from-the-pcgs-grading-room-surface-smoothing-and-other-metal-mischief" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/news/from-the-pcgs-grading-room-surface-smoothing-and-other-metal-mischief" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcgs.com/news/from-the-pcgs-grading-room-surface-smoothing-and-other-metal-mischief</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1610159[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1610160[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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