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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2722203, member: 76086&quot;]In the last CNG auction there was a coin I desperately wanted:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]616952[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Postumus. </b>Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Æ Double Sestertius (33mm, 20.54 g, 6h). Treveri (Trier) mint. 3rd bronze emission, AD 261. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Postumus standing facing, head left, holding globe and spear. RIC V 106; Mairat 185; Bastien 63; Banti 44-5. VF, brown and tan surfaces, light tooling and smoothing, flan crack. Struck on a broad flan.</p><p><br /></p><p>But in the end I did not bid. It went for a strong price of $525 (strong to me as it is tooled).&nbsp; I can tolerate smoothing.&nbsp; I have no issues with that (well, few, anyway).&nbsp; But I just have a problem with tooling (only one coin in my collection is tooled, and only because I didn&#039;t notice before I bid).&nbsp; Without tooling I would have bid up to $1,000 but I just cant pull the trigger for coins altered in that way.&nbsp; I really wish people didn&#039;t tool coins, but they do as they know many dont care, dont notice, or dont know what it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the question is, how much can one tolerate?&nbsp; I have to be honest, if I could have gotten this coin cheaply, say for $250, I might have bought it anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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