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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aethelred, post: 2711056, member: 81808&quot;]Vespasian only wishes he had that much hair!</p><p><br /></p><p>As to your question of how tooling impacts value, that depends on:</p><p><br /></p><p>A. The collector</p><p>B. The type of coin in question</p><p>C. The type and extent of the tooling</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, a little minor tooling to remove roughness on a bronze coin (called smoothing) can be acceptable, but should certainly be reflected in the price of the coin. Tooling that adds details (such as restoring lettering, adding hair etc cetera) is absolutely unacceptable and I would not want the coin in my collection at any price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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