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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 2748830, member: 39084&quot;]It is indeed a very attractive coin, and the smoothing doesn&#039;t bother me in the least.</p><p><br /></p><p>But on the obverse, the beard and hair seem to have been enhanced by increasing their sharpness; notice how the neck is not delineated at all, due to wear, yet the hair and beard don&#039;t seem to exhibit the same amount of wear. </p><p><br /></p><p>On the reverse, the fine details in the horses pulling the quadriga are much too well delineated to be (to my eye) preserved that sharply, relative to the other wear on the coin.&nbsp; I&#039;m also suspicious of the detail in the stonework on the towers -- these features have high relief and I don&#039;t see how some of these lines wouldn&#039;t have been worn down to the same level as the towers themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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