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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2006739, member: 26302&quot;]I would have to see the coin in hand. You say you do not think the legends are tooled, but without seeing the flan you cannot know that. Just last weekend I bought some coins, (surprise). But, out of a box I had pulled out two. Afterwards, I looked at them. Both had an imperfect flan, with a low point on the flan. Well, one coin had full legends, the other was missing legend in this low spot. To me, this proved the &quot;full legend&quot; coin was tooled, and I would have not really caught it if I didn&#039;t see the coin three dimensionally. I bought the &quot;missing legend&quot; coin for half the price of the tooled coin. If I would have seen them online, I probably would have bought the &quot;full legend&quot; coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, to me, online if I see any evidence of tooling at all the coin is off limits. If I can see it in hand to evaluate it, MAYBE. I just seriously hate tooling, not being able to trust ANYTHING on the coin since I can never be sure what is original and what is not. Smoothing I understand, especially for coppers. That is fine, but tooling no.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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