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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1936718, member: 26302&quot;]To me sir its starts to get &quot;fuzzy&quot; at the level of the OP&#039;s coin. I see what you are pointing out, but I am unsure of intent. What I mean by that is when you clean a coin its a very natural action to be cleaning around the items you mention. So, is this action a result of simple cleaning, which the vast majority of our ancients have had done to them, or is it intentional tooling? I guess having a background of cleaning some ancients when I first got into this hobby I am using that experience to form my opinion. I have many of those coins still, and the ones in which I was a little too agressive or had to work harder to remove some material from you might also state have been tooled. Maybe from your standpoint they have, but it was never my intent to try to tool or improve the coin at all, merely to remove unwanted material that deposited there over 1600 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this makes sense. I am firmly against tooling, and I prefer buying sestertii in person if possible to examine the field relief, color, and other less noticable signs of tooling if possible. So I am not trying to defend it sir, only point out sometimes what you call tooling might be innocent cleaning marks, especially for lesser specimens.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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