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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 1498437, member: 39084&quot;]This is a topic I thought might be interesting to discuss, since there are certainly members who can shed some light on an issue with which I have little experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>Recently I came across the following coin in an upcoming auction, and e-mailed my dealer to get his opinion on it:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]191715.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Part of his response was that the coin was &quot;too sharp&quot; and showed evidence of smoothing and sharpening of details.&nbsp; Although smoothing isn&#039;t necessarily bad, sharpening/tooling is off limits for any coins that I wish to collect.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I can&#039;t really see the sharpening that my dealer sees so easily.&nbsp; About the only evidence of tooling that I can see is on the obverse legend, in the &quot;TR POT&quot; part (at 3 o&#039;clock) that appears to be artificially enhanced, especially the &quot;P&quot; and &quot;O&quot;&nbsp; Other than that, it isn&#039;t clear to me that this coin has been tooled.&nbsp; While the portrait does appear to be very sharp, I don&#039;t actually see the areas that have been sharpened/tooled.</p><p><br /></p><p>What does everyone else see in this coin?&nbsp; What am I missing?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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