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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 4075572, member: 44316&quot;]Like everyone else, I&#039;d prefer to avoid tooled and smoothed coins. Significant tooling is very bad, but for some types, like sestertii, smoothing of fine coins was commonly accepted two centuries ago and many sestertii offered today have some (or a lot) which is often not mentioned by sellers. I can&#039;t say I like it, but if an otherwise-nice sestertius of a type I want has some smoothing, I&#039;d accept it if the price were somewhat less because of it. Smoothing does not add details like tooling does, rather it smooths rough (corroded) surfaces where there was no design detail. I can live with that. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the definition of tooling and smoothing, see <a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/condition.html#IV" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/condition.html#IV" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/condition.html#IV</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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