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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Theodosius, post: 2976743, member: 77077&quot;]I like your coin and it could be the way it wore and then aged naturally over the years.&nbsp; Does not look smoothed or tooled.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think most people are ok with removing deposits and corrosion that were not part of the coin when it left the mint (cleaning).&nbsp; Sometimes it goes a little farther and some of the surface of the coin may be sanded off (smoothing) which is not ok with most people.&nbsp; Re-engraving the real details or incorrect details is tooling, and most ancient coin collectors are against this because it obscures what the original coin looked like and replaces it with some modern person&#039;s idea of how it should look.&nbsp; Tooling should not be tolerated by people because we don&#039;t want to create a market for tooled (and pretty looking but false) coins that people would get busy filling.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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