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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7524462, member: 19463"]Realizing when to stop is the important thing. Realizing that point has passed and we have gone too far is more common. You are doing what you can given what you had to start. Obviously what you are getting out of this in terms of satisfaction of doing this is more valuable than the coins themselves. If having coins that are smooth and beautiful is the goal, we can find coins that look smooth when found and do not require smoothing. These are two different hobbies.</p><p><br /></p><p>I consider your example extremely smoothed but not tooled. That is not bad; it is just the way things are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7524462, member: 19463"]Realizing when to stop is the important thing. Realizing that point has passed and we have gone too far is more common. You are doing what you can given what you had to start. Obviously what you are getting out of this in terms of satisfaction of doing this is more valuable than the coins themselves. If having coins that are smooth and beautiful is the goal, we can find coins that look smooth when found and do not require smoothing. These are two different hobbies. I consider your example extremely smoothed but not tooled. That is not bad; it is just the way things are.[/QUOTE]
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