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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;YOC, post: 2399767, member: 58941&quot;][ATTACH=full]494330[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I dont know what you want to call it, smoothed or tooled, but this coin has certainly had &#039;work done&#039; as a plastic surgeon might say.&nbsp; By that I mean a scalpel or dremel has been used to scrape away hard surface deposits on a coin whose surface itself is clearly unstable (signs of pitting).&nbsp; Notice from the image I have attached, the yellow areas where deposits have clearly been scraped away from the coin to reveal detail.&nbsp; The red area is where scalpel marks can still be seen because the restorer did not scrape down to the surface but instead left marks in one direction in the deposits, making them far more obvious.&nbsp; The deposits may have protected the coins surface once, but now exposed, i would keep an eye out for powdery green deposits in the pitting (I am not going to say the dreaded words).&nbsp; So if we are to clean coins do it properly or not at all imo.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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