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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3970028, member: 85693&quot;]A very, very inexpert opinion here - I do not care for this coin at all, smoothed or not.&nbsp; It has a kind of fakey pressed look to it, and I do not care for the style, especially the lettering.&nbsp; This is an extensively faked issue and I think I&#039;d be more comfortable if a legitimate die match could be found. </p><p><br /></p><p>And yet let me also add that (to my dismay) several posts on Coin Talk have pointed out that slabbing services do not guarantee genuineness!&nbsp; I did not know this.&nbsp; So as far as the slab guaranteeing genuineness, apparently it does no such thing.&nbsp; &quot;Smoothing&quot; noted on the slab in this case strikes me as being a bit weasely - as if the slabber knew something was &quot;off&quot; about the coin and went with &quot;smoothed&quot; rather than &quot;fake.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I&#039;ve never heard of silver being &quot;smoothed&quot; - I thought that smoothing was a bronze/patina thing.&nbsp; Silver I thought was described as &quot;tooled.&quot;&nbsp; Maybe this is the same thing? </p><p><br /></p><p>Again, I am not an expert.&nbsp; But I&#039;m willing to learn![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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