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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2399833, member: 19463&quot;]Smoothing is an alteration of the patina on selected areas of the surface of the coin.&nbsp; Most commonly this is done to fields but not touching letters perhaps for fear of cleaning them off.&nbsp; Tooling goes below the patina layer into the metal itself selectively lowering fields to raise the details like letters as well as to deepen worn off lines like hair detail.&nbsp; Tooling can be used to replace missing detail or change completely what was or was not there.&nbsp; Tooling usually will require application of an artificial patina or, at least, toning to darken the exposed metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is my favorite tooled coin. The entire legend and portrait were reworked into a Zenobia starting, I suspect, with a Flavian as.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]494340[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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