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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3529169, member: 84744&quot;]Tooling is a matter of degree, and it&#039;s fairly silly for NGC to &quot;body bag&quot; any ancient coin that has even a microscopic amount of detectable tooling, as though there&#039;s some definitive line to be drawn between OK and not OK.&nbsp; The question for each collector is how much tooling is too much?&nbsp; Our answers to that question vary a lot, and they will vary depending on the coin. We&#039;ve also seen egregious cases in this forum that are laughable, and that nobody would want in their collection (except as a joke piece). </p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I&#039;m not that keen on the Hadrian, more because of the smoothing (I expect the tooling is minimal); but I also think the price was appropriate for the coin, you weren&#039;t at all ripped off.&nbsp; I doubt you were ripped off by the others either.&nbsp; I will say that I think Frank&#039;s attitude to tooling (and especially smoothing) is pretty relaxed.&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t stop me from bidding in his auctions, it just informs my bidding.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a beginner coming from modern coins, you&#039;re inclined to be unhappy with any amount of tooling.&nbsp; As you become more experienced, you might find that a little bit is sometimes acceptable.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no doubt that both auction houses will accept returns if you&#039;re unhappy with the amount of tooling on the coins (and if there is indeed some tooling).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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