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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2194938, member: 19463&quot;]+1</p><p><br /></p><p>I see tooling that would make me bid less but not so objectionable that it will be a concern to at least two bidders that will drive the realization above estimate.&nbsp; I wonder if the coin lacked the tooling we see if it would realize less or, perhaps, more because people who prefer their coins untooled would then bid. </p><p><br /></p><p>I once said, and I stand by this, that I would love to have the Super-Power of being able to follow coins back through time so I could see what happened to them from the moment they dropped from the dies.&nbsp; Then I could see cleaning, tooling, retoning, smuggling and provenance through all the sets of hands that may have touched it in ~2000 years.&nbsp; All the questions that have any possible negative influence would be set aside or brought to the front.&nbsp; Super-Power![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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