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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3528806, member: 76194"]+100 What I just said. I think his coins might have some slight smoothing. Frankly, from what I can see from his image, they look great and are certainly not garbage.</p><p><br /></p><p>But he sounds like a US collector... and I never understood the desire for slabbed perfection. Out of all my Roman bronzes I probably have 2 or 3 that have had slight smoothing of the fields in some distant past. I don't lose any sleep over that. Not a big deal.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>PS: Two of the 4 coins are listed as having slight smoothing. They did disclose it. So don't blame the auction houses for that.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3528806, member: 76194"]+100 What I just said. I think his coins might have some slight smoothing. Frankly, from what I can see from his image, they look great and are certainly not garbage. But he sounds like a US collector... and I never understood the desire for slabbed perfection. Out of all my Roman bronzes I probably have 2 or 3 that have had slight smoothing of the fields in some distant past. I don't lose any sleep over that. Not a big deal. [B]PS: Two of the 4 coins are listed as having slight smoothing. They did disclose it. So don't blame the auction houses for that.[/B][/QUOTE]
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