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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2722313, member: 19463&quot;]Sometimes we are faced with a choice of a smoothed coin or no coin.&nbsp; You can be a purist and insist on no coin but that is hard to do when you face the fact that what exists is what exists.&nbsp; I have a coin that one expert suggested was tooled but another thought was doublestruck making it just a bit different in one area from the only other coin we knew from that die.&nbsp; Either way, I want the coin.&nbsp; I have coins that have been cleaned excessively by what we might call misguided coin improvers.&nbsp; In one case, I have an old auction catalog photo of the coin before it was spiffied up.&nbsp; Until someone comes up with another example, I&#039;ll be happy to have that one.&nbsp; I have coins with extensive tooling removing bronze disease.&nbsp; Sometimes we get a body part cut off to avoid the &#039;other&#039; choice.&nbsp; There are just too many maybes in life to be too dogmatic but, in general, I&#039;d rather not pay good money for a bad coin.&nbsp; Tooling is bad.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless.... it could be funny.&nbsp; I like my tooled Zenobia.&nbsp; It came with a little paper insert from a slab &quot;Extensively tooled to change ID&quot;.&nbsp; Understatement.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]617002[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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