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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kentucky, post: 8268521, member: 33176&quot;]Actually I&#039;ve been playing around with ancients for a couple of years and at least reading the postings in the Ancients Forum.&nbsp; The feeling I get is that smoothing is not a desirable practice, and if a collector buys a coin that turns out to be smoothed without that being revealed, it is cause for a return.&nbsp; Worse than smoothing (and easier to detect) is tooling.&nbsp; Tooling is recutting features of the coin, including facial features and hair.&nbsp; Cleaning is mostly expected on most ancients, but tooling and smoothing are no-no&#039;s as far as I know.</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/tooled-hairstyle.294673/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/tooled-hairstyle.294673/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/tooled-hairstyle.294673/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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