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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2398849, member: 42773&quot;]Looking through lot after lot at Lanz, finding almost nothing but altered coins. Is this the new hobby? Do collectors just not care anymore? Or do they not read? Is it too much trouble to learn a bit of German?</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>geglättet = smoothed</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><b>geschnitzt = tooled</b></b></p><p><br /></p><p>I think Lanz is being much more honest about altering these days, but there are still a bunch of lots that are tooled and not described as such. Here&#039;s Hanniballianus for instance, totally carved up and ironed out (and they even said so) and evidently still worth $180!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/LANZ-Constantinopolis-Follis-Hanniballianus-Flussgott-Euphrates-Szepter-IVS954-/371593132330?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&amp;ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&amp;nma=true&amp;si=GCX24t7CMH4aEL4QLfDg9xh3DDc%253D&amp;orig_cvip=true&amp;rt=nc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/LANZ-Constantinopolis-Follis-Hanniballianus-Flussgott-Euphrates-Szepter-IVS954-/371593132330?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&amp;ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&amp;nma=true&amp;si=GCX24t7CMH4aEL4QLfDg9xh3DDc%253D&amp;orig_cvip=true&amp;rt=nc" rel="nofollow">eBay Lanz</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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