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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;4to2centBC, post: 2400642, member: 76181&quot;]While looking through the auction when it was first listed. I saw that coin and it looked odd. Then I read the description and thought.....why the hell is CNG putting this in its&#039; auction? I expect this from Lanz, EBay or some other boiler room operation. </p><p><br /></p><p>I won&#039;t buy anything that is tooled or looks tooled or has been smoothed to any large degree. I largely avoid bronzes because so many are smoothed or tooled. To see this done with silver and gold is disappointing. I have seen repair work done on silver that is undetectable without having seen a previous photo of the coin. And that was almost a decade ago. I can only imagine they have gotten better at it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The result is that I now buy even more carefully. With so many coins out there, I find no need to buy things that are questionable. Which is why I find a long pedigree to be pretty good protection against shenanigans. </p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, Salem of Athena (formerly HolyLand) does like to sand patinate. I hate it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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