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<p>[QUOTE="IdesOfMarch01, post: 3211366, member: 39084"]I would argue that benign smoothing <i>("...the removal of surface encrustations that were not originally part of the coin, but rather deposited on the coin after minting but prior to discovery...") </i>is <b>not</b> the same as tooling. </p><p><br /></p><p>Tooling <i>creates</i> features that weren't present on the coin when it was discovered, and may not even have been present when the coin was originally minted. E.g., if a coin becomes worn due to circulation, features become less sharp and even disappear. If these features are recreated by re-engraving the coin, that's tooling. For me as a collector, this is completely unacceptable.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, if a coin has lain undiscovered in the soil for millennia, and as a result has built up encrustations on its surface that were <i>not</i> present on the coin when it was buried, removing these encrustations via smoothing is not tooling. It's simply restoring the coin's surface to its condition when it fell out of circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IdesOfMarch01, post: 3211366, member: 39084"]I would argue that benign smoothing [I]("...the removal of surface encrustations that were not originally part of the coin, but rather deposited on the coin after minting but prior to discovery...") [/I]is [B]not[/B] the same as tooling. Tooling [I]creates[/I] features that weren't present on the coin when it was discovered, and may not even have been present when the coin was originally minted. E.g., if a coin becomes worn due to circulation, features become less sharp and even disappear. If these features are recreated by re-engraving the coin, that's tooling. For me as a collector, this is completely unacceptable. However, if a coin has lain undiscovered in the soil for millennia, and as a result has built up encrustations on its surface that were [I]not[/I] present on the coin when it was buried, removing these encrustations via smoothing is not tooling. It's simply restoring the coin's surface to its condition when it fell out of circulation.[/QUOTE]
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