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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2877132, member: 26302&quot;]Plug filling would probably be a different category, In ancients, tooling means doctoring a coin, but filling a complete hole is usually not part of it. However, I would disagree with [USER=24314]@Insider[/USER] that tooling never involves adding anything to a coin. Many times new metal or new &quot;toning&quot; is added to &quot;add value&quot; to a coin. It is usually just tooling of existing metal but that is mainly to lower chances of getting caught, but ground up real patinas glued on to cover up the tooling is common I hear.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe it is semantics, but I have only thought of smoothing as pertaining to the fields. [USER=39084]@IdesOfMarch01[/USER] posts an interesting coin with smoothing on the main device. To me, (and I could be totally wrong), &quot;messing&quot; with the devices I could call tooling even though its the same action as performed in the fields. Maybe my definition is wrong, but I call innocent or incidental smoothing of fields while cleaning acceptable, intentional smoothing of FIELDS smoothing, and messing with devices in any way tooling. The reason is the fields are incidental to the coin, but the devices and lettering are key, and messing with them more severe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good discussion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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