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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8133914, member: 110350&quot;]It doesn&#039;t look tooled to me either. Like you, though, I always worry when I consider buying a Roman bronze in great condition that the details are the product of tooling. Never mind smoothing. I haven&#039;t yet learned to look at a dupondius or sestertius and immediately recognize tooling, unless it&#039;s obvious and crude like in the example shown here.&nbsp; As far as I know, tooling is not so easy and not so much a concern with silver denarii and antonianii, which is one of the reasons I focus more on such coins in buying Roman Imperials. (I haven&#039;t read that tooling is as big a concern for bronze Roman Provincials.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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