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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2938341, member: 19463&quot;]As a general rule, sellers of coins are not likely to list a coin as &#039;tooled&#039; when it was only smoothed.&nbsp; That does not pay well.&nbsp;&nbsp; I suppose there are a number who don&#039;t understand the terms but buying 4 digit price coins from sellers who don&#039;t know what they are doing is almost as silly as buying a coin labeled &#039;tooled&#039; and hoping the surfaces are original.&nbsp; There must be a good living to be made tooling rare sestertii judging from the number that show up regularly.&nbsp; I assume the &#039;masters&#039; who do this work have apprentices who are working on Gordian III coins so I don&#039;t take a lot of comfort on a coin being common.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In 500 years will there be a market for coins like this as we see today for original Paduans/Cavinos?&nbsp; The style is not unattractive unless you know what it should look like whereupon it becomes&nbsp; ugly from being wrong.&nbsp; We consider Cavino a great artist of his day so his copies are originals in their own rite.&nbsp; Will this, someday. be a masterpiece of circa 2000 engraving?&nbsp; I say no.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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