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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nicholas Molinari, post: 2550413, member: 78411&quot;]Here&#039;s an example of a Neapolitan coin we were convinced was tooled from the photo.&nbsp; I bought it on the chance it wasn&#039;t because it would confirm one of Sambon&#039;s listings that Taliercio had omitted from her study.&nbsp; When I got the coin I realized it wasn&#039;t tooled and it was just the lighting that made the area around the wreath look like it was.&nbsp; Lanz is full of tooled coins, don&#039;t get me wrong.&nbsp; But many times the tooling appears much more prominent than it actually is because of the lighting set-up he uses.&nbsp; In this case, I found no evidence of tooling and was very happy to learn it was a legitimate variety from Neapolis.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]547960[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is a screen snip so the resolution isn&#039;t very good, but I never saved the original Lanz photo file.&nbsp; Somewhere I have the additional photos I took to prove to my coauthor that it wasn&#039;t tooled (he is very hard to persuade).</p><p><br /></p><p>Back to the original coin, I do believe it is tooled, but there is a chance that the lighting is making it look significantly worse than it is and that in hand, it is barely noticeable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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