I'm not sure that the coin has been tooled.
It is disappointing that you cannot see what should be patently obvious. May I
make the sincere suggestion that you take some extra time to educate yourself
further, and become even more familiarised with the subject matter that at
present. Allow me to elucidate further.
I showed the original image for comparison, and the surfaces on that image are
clearly a little rough, and the devices quite worn overall. Now compare that with
the gouged and chiseled areas on the adjacent image.
The mere addition of some yellow paint (or whatever it may be) does highlight or
enhance the outlines of the images, but it was previously severely damaged by
scraping around the edges and around the outlines of those images. There are
'striations' across the surfaces, and gouges into and around the main depictions,
on both sides.
I find it difficult to understand how something so obvious cannot be immediately
seen and recognised instantly by anyone and everyone. The fact that this is not
so, both scares me that collectors are not doing more to learn about such things
for themselves in order to prevent being deceived or 'ripped-off', and it allows
me to offer what I can here in order to change that (by showing such examples).
In the below images, you will see that I have place a number of arrows where
there are obvious signs of gouging and tooling. The problem I
had was that there
was not enough space for all of the arrows I wanted to use, and so you may have
to fill in some of the gaps yourselves.
Anyone who
still cannot see that which is patently obvious in these images, needs
to visit their local coin club, their friendly ancients dealer, attend a few
coin shows,
and do more to learn as much as possible about these matters.
This is not one of the more (in)famous 19th century (etc.) professional works, this
is quite amateurish, poorly conceived and horribly executed. It is offensive to the
numismatist, the historian, and the artist in all of us. It is simply vandalism.
Please have another, very close look at the surfaces on both coins, and compare
again the original, with the latter. Details have not only been
enhanced, but added
where there was little or nothing there before. Look at ALL of the coin.
Good luck!
- Walter