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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 2153751, member: 39084&quot;]Bing raises an interesting issue about tooled coins -- namely, whether or not to collect them.&nbsp; The most glaring example of this is a Vespasian <i>Judaea Capta</i> sestertius from NAC&#039;s 2007 auction that was considered to be tooled by most (but not all) dealers who viewed this coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]413672[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin sold for $95,000 (including buyer&#039;s fee) despite the high likelihood of being tooled.</p><p><br /></p><p>If this coin had been universally acclaimed to be natural (smoothing but no tooling) it would have been worth $250K+.&nbsp; If you had the money, would you have bought it for $95K?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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