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<p>[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3110886, member: 80783"]Hi Macromius,</p><p>even though I must admit that I certainly enjoy even the most naive praise for my acquisitions (who doesn´t "need" some consolation that the money you spent went into something that at least has some eye appeal not only to yourself?), I like (and benefit from) honest criticism just as much!</p><p>I guess one of the reasons that we are all here is that 100 eyes see more than two (and it looks like 650 viewers were not provoked enough to complain yet). In fact I have returned half a dozen Sestertii after they did not pass under the watchful eyes of this forum and it has saved me from buying a lot of crap.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, what exactly looks tooled to you on my Alexander? I can see no surface discrepancies on the unpatinated metal and I think the portrait looks way to lifelike to show the traces of a later reworking (tooled portraits tend to look like caricatures <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />). Also, if someone would have tried to "improve" this coin, I guess he would have started with the mediocre reverse, the incomplete obverse legend, or the crusty cuirass.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your thoughts please. I can handle it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3110886, member: 80783"]Hi Macromius, even though I must admit that I certainly enjoy even the most naive praise for my acquisitions (who doesn´t "need" some consolation that the money you spent went into something that at least has some eye appeal not only to yourself?), I like (and benefit from) honest criticism just as much! I guess one of the reasons that we are all here is that 100 eyes see more than two (and it looks like 650 viewers were not provoked enough to complain yet). In fact I have returned half a dozen Sestertii after they did not pass under the watchful eyes of this forum and it has saved me from buying a lot of crap. So, what exactly looks tooled to you on my Alexander? I can see no surface discrepancies on the unpatinated metal and I think the portrait looks way to lifelike to show the traces of a later reworking (tooled portraits tend to look like caricatures :p). Also, if someone would have tried to "improve" this coin, I guess he would have started with the mediocre reverse, the incomplete obverse legend, or the crusty cuirass. Your thoughts please. I can handle it :)[/QUOTE]
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