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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8286468, member: 84744&quot;]Just to add to [USER=26430]@Curtis[/USER]&#039;s explanations for how obv. and rev. can differ in the relevant way, die wear can be very different (they were replaced at different times - this is what&#039;s going on with Curtis&#039;s tet I&#039;d say), and burial conditions can involve very different conditions for obv and rev.&nbsp; With the Bithynian temple coin this thread is about, I&#039;d bet both are involved, as well as strike.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think Warren&#039;s saying that at all, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]!&nbsp; I think he&#039;s just saying that smoothing and unintentional scratches (from cleaning) shouldn&#039;t automatically be seen as major problems, and one shouldn&#039;t lose sight of all the other relevant features of a coin.&nbsp; He knows you appreciate those other features (style, history, type, strike, die state, etc.) very much.&nbsp; And if you have a thing against smoothing, that&#039;s also OK of course!&nbsp; To each his/her own.&nbsp; The &quot;average&quot; serious collector, though, doesn&#039;t see non-excessive smoothing on bronze as a major defect.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think we&#039;d all agree that IF this coin has received significant tooling, that&#039;s a very bad thing.&nbsp; But there&#039;s a difference of opinion on that question.&nbsp; It&#039;s important to separate that issue from the general issue of whether tooling is a bad thing.&nbsp; I think we&#039;d all agree that it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do think you&#039;re making a mistake if you equate intentional tooling with smoothing, esp. field smoothing. The first detracts from a coin vastly more than the second IMO.&nbsp; (Again, though, to each his/her own!)&nbsp; That&#039;s not to say I haven&#039;t rejected coins for what I saw as excessive smoothing.&nbsp; I&#039;ve sent coins back to Frank Robinson for this reason. (His photos often don&#039;t show it.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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