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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2876073, member: 26302"]Smoothing can be a natural part of the cleaning process. It depends on severity and that severity can kind of tell you intent as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>To clean off encrustations, you use a metal tool to peel them off. This will naturally tend to smooth down the metal on the coin. However, if a coin has a rough surface, some will intentionally smooth the fields of the coin, to make it look better. Best way I know to detect it is to look at small field areas that would be very difficult to smooth. Those areas should look just like the large flat areas. If they are much rougher, then chances are the coin was smoothed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Detraction of smoothing is not bad. Most ancient collectors accept it unless blatant. Tooling, however, (adding details to a coin), is NEVER acceptable and greatly diminishes a coins value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2876073, member: 26302"]Smoothing can be a natural part of the cleaning process. It depends on severity and that severity can kind of tell you intent as well. To clean off encrustations, you use a metal tool to peel them off. This will naturally tend to smooth down the metal on the coin. However, if a coin has a rough surface, some will intentionally smooth the fields of the coin, to make it look better. Best way I know to detect it is to look at small field areas that would be very difficult to smooth. Those areas should look just like the large flat areas. If they are much rougher, then chances are the coin was smoothed. Detraction of smoothing is not bad. Most ancient collectors accept it unless blatant. Tooling, however, (adding details to a coin), is NEVER acceptable and greatly diminishes a coins value.[/QUOTE]
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