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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 3529622, member: 86498&quot;]Smoothing does not necessarily mean sanding down the surface of the coin it could also include filling in some pits or other blemishes with a filler and then covering it up with a new surface. Bronze coins especially first and second century Roman sestertii can be a problem as some of them have been smoothed or tooled, with the work having being done decades or even centuries before. Thus even the smoothing and tooling can have an aged patina. I rarely buy sestertii or other aes coins unless I can see them first or have someone whom I trust look at them for me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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