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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cherd, post: 25443400, member: 24754&quot;]At the very least, it has some pretty extreme smoothing in the fields. But that only matters if you care about that kind of thing (I personally prefer the increased eye appeal from smoothed fields on some coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>As for tooling, patina, etc.... I have no idea. My inability to make those kinds of determinations is evidenced by the collection of NGC body bags that I accidentally accumulated in my early collecting years. I&#039;ve solved the problem by simply not purchasing raw bronzes (I prefer my coins in slabs).</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people are definitely better than others at identifying those types of problems, but the analyses that can be done by photo are pretty limited. I think that well done modifications probably require looking at the surfaces under magnification.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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