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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 7516502, member: 24314&quot;]Let me elaborate in response.&nbsp; When I started authenticating ancients, that word &quot;smoothing&quot; never existed.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know which auction company either in the US, Britain, or Germany came up with the term &quot;smoothing&quot; to lessen the damage the actual act of tooling did to the price of the coin they were selling.&nbsp; When a coin&#039;s surface is smoothed (altered to hide corrosion) without changing the design, it is still <b><i><font size="6">tooled.</font></i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>The same thing goes on today when coins that are actually Buffed or Polished are in the market with a label stating they are (just <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie105" alt=":yuck:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie105" alt=":yuck:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) &quot;cleaned.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Smoothed&quot; coins are alterations and they will always be alterations.&nbsp; Perhaps one day, they will become as undesirable AGAIN as lacquered coins (once the accepted norm for copper and now considered &quot;detailed&quot; for their altered surface).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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