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Message:: [QUOTE="Evom777, post: 1861308, member: 27123"]Recently I purchased a beautifully toned raw 1900s Barber quarter that appeared to be in a lower MS grade. This coin had everything going for it.....nice beautiful, uniformed toning on the obverse and reverse with ample shades of blue edges and light purple in the center. It even had a die crack on the obverse that covered 6 of the stars. As far as eye appeal goes.....this was the Marilyn Monroe of Barber quarters. I louped it for a while and was content to purchase it. A few days later I send the coin out to PCGS and it comes back as Smoothed, AU Details. Of course there`s no explanation as to which side was "smoothed" but I digress. My question is simply this.....how turned off are people to smoothed coins? I have seen some smoothers that the naked eye could spot as well as some that have people scratching their heads as to how it received that designation.....so You tell me. I apologize in advance for the lack of photo quality, as I`m currently in a Tim Hortons with a sub par camera. [ATTACH]312875[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]312876[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]