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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 2876773, member: 31620&quot;]Who would care to define tooling and smoothing. I have seen many, many definitions and most of them different. My definitions are as follows:-</p><p><br /></p><p>Smoothing:-</p><p>Removal of metal from the fields of a coin to create a smoother appearance to the surface of the coin. Removal of layers of patina, encrustations etc. are variations on cleaning and NOT smoothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tooling:-</p><p>Removal of metal from the devices or legends to either sharpen the design or to modify aspects of the design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to disagree with these definitions but I thought I would set my version down.</p><p><br /></p><p>Martin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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