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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2711164, member: 74282"]I wouldn't suggest anything quite so drastic if you ever discover you have another possibly tooled coin. Most dealers will provide a refund given evidence of tooling even if they disagree and tooling can be a difficult subject. Sometimes it is obvious, but sometimes it takes a die match like the one illustrated by David above to either condemn or vindicate a coin, though of course finding one gets more difficult the more common a particular type is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the references commonly cited here have notes arguing that a particular type should be condemned because the author only knew of a single example which was believed to have been a tooled coin that started as something else. I know of at least a handful of cases where one or more die matched examples appeared later, proving them wrong. Thankfully no one threw those coins into the harbor![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2711164, member: 74282"]I wouldn't suggest anything quite so drastic if you ever discover you have another possibly tooled coin. Most dealers will provide a refund given evidence of tooling even if they disagree and tooling can be a difficult subject. Sometimes it is obvious, but sometimes it takes a die match like the one illustrated by David above to either condemn or vindicate a coin, though of course finding one gets more difficult the more common a particular type is. Most of the references commonly cited here have notes arguing that a particular type should be condemned because the author only knew of a single example which was believed to have been a tooled coin that started as something else. I know of at least a handful of cases where one or more die matched examples appeared later, proving them wrong. Thankfully no one threw those coins into the harbor![/QUOTE]
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