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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2722237, member: 74282&quot;]I am not a fan of tooling at all. I&#039;ve learned to spend some time trying to find die matches and looking very closely at coins before buying them, especially bronzes. I would generally rather have a worse coin or a corroded coin than one that&#039;s been tooled, though I can accept some light smoothing as long as I&#039;m thoroughly convinced that it&#039;s only smoothing. For me my collection is also a research tool and IMHO a tooled coin becomes largely useless because its weight, style and fabric are all suspect at that point.</p><p><br /></p><p>In an effort to both avoid tooled coins and to avoid those who sell them I&#039;ve also begun completely blacklisting certain sellers who have a higher proportion of tooled coins, marked as such or otherwise. Lanz is one of these - his apologists always bring up that it&#039;s his eBay auctions which are run by less experienced staff or whatever but he himself has said tooling makes coins better and I simply can&#039;t support any dealer who feels that way. Any coin that comes from such a seller is suspect in my opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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