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<p>[QUOTE="hotwheelsearl, post: 8061820, member: 75143"]This is a rather heavily tooled Gallienus I have. I paid like $80, which I think is too much looking back on it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1397386[/ATTACH] </p><p>The tooling is especially egregious on the reverse, where the letters' outlines were severely extra-defined, the folds in the drapery of Fortuna appear to have been completely invented, and mega-smoothing on the field. The obverse seems to have escaped the brunt of it, but overall it's something I would never buy again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hotwheelsearl, post: 8061820, member: 75143"]This is a rather heavily tooled Gallienus I have. I paid like $80, which I think is too much looking back on it. [ATTACH=full]1397386[/ATTACH] The tooling is especially egregious on the reverse, where the letters' outlines were severely extra-defined, the folds in the drapery of Fortuna appear to have been completely invented, and mega-smoothing on the field. The obverse seems to have escaped the brunt of it, but overall it's something I would never buy again.[/QUOTE]
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