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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #550 on: May 25, 2016, 03:56:16 am »
It makes you physically sick to look at it.
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #551 on: September 19, 2016, 01:53:02 am »
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #552 on: September 20, 2016, 04:56:03 am »
In a German auction, maroneia stater, it would have been a cute coin if the vandals didn't re-engrave the grapes and tried to smooth out the corrosion

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #553 on: September 26, 2016, 03:17:14 am »
Kyzikos stater (ex-prospero)

poor boy visited the hairdresser against his will  :o ::)

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #554 on: September 28, 2016, 02:01:43 pm »
Constantius Gallus: an unworthy caesar but a handsome man...
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #555 on: October 19, 2016, 06:33:20 pm »
On a well-known selling platform. The lion's face and mane are a modern masterpiece.

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #556 on: November 10, 2016, 04:56:16 pm »
uglier 
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #557 on: December 20, 2016, 07:28:55 am »
 >:(
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #558 on: December 21, 2016, 05:27:48 pm »
noted as tooled in auction.
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #559 on: December 21, 2016, 05:40:14 pm »
same auction, only noted smoothed seems also tooled
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Toga
Head Hadrian?
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #560 on: December 27, 2016, 04:00:28 pm »
ebay under smoothed
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #561 on: February 07, 2017, 04:03:01 am »
maybe Graffiti "smile" so in ancient times
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #562 on: March 02, 2017, 01:39:15 pm »
The ugliest tooled Justinian follis.

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #563 on: March 02, 2017, 01:50:18 pm »
Face doesn't look tooled to me.

An ancient imitation ("barbarous")?
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #564 on: March 02, 2017, 02:20:10 pm »
Yes Curtis, this is an ancient imitation, but also tooled on the face.

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #565 on: March 02, 2017, 02:37:11 pm »
As I said, face doesn't look tooled to me.
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #566 on: March 02, 2017, 03:12:04 pm »
In hand, eyes, nose, moustache and lips look carved deeply. However, expert eyes have the final decision.

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #567 on: March 05, 2017, 05:06:52 am »
Seller calls this smoothing but leaves out the re-cutting
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #568 on: March 12, 2017, 03:28:46 am »
Troas Sigeion, 6,90g, 18 mm
Near XF !   ;D,  actually 15 bids  :(

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #569 on: April 12, 2017, 02:56:12 am »
"Agathocles of Syracuse, Sicily. Large Greek Bronze Coin 317-289 BC. 31 mm.
Horses charging left. Horseman on right. Above dolphin. Below, a collection of tools or arms.
Head of the water nymph Arethusa, patron deity of Syracuse. Dolphin at right edge behind head.
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This coin is guaranteed to be authentic. (...)"

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #570 on: April 12, 2017, 04:58:19 am »
Oh snap!   lol

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #571 on: August 01, 2017, 09:33:01 am »
Altered silver, grafity and scratches removed on obverse

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #572 on: August 01, 2017, 09:34:32 am »
Some light smoothing ^^

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #573 on: September 13, 2017, 11:00:16 pm »
A very worthy example of the tooled genre here.....

No mention of the obvious tooling, but a classic statement regarding the dotted border......  "border dots drilled around obverse" ... now that's what I call serious tooling!

Seleukid Kingdom. Antiochos I Soter. 281-261 B.C. Æ (16 mm, 2.63 g, 11 h). Seleukeia on the Tigris. Laureate head of Apollo facing slightly right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕ[ΩΣ] ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟ[Υ], Nike standing right, erecting trophy; uncertain controls. SC 389; HGC 9, 178. Rare. Reddish-brown patina, porosity on reverse, border dots drilled around obverse. Very fine.

And despite the butchery it is graded "Very Fine".


Who writes these descriptions? Laughable really!
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #574 on: October 01, 2017, 07:02:09 am »
Hadrian not sure if reverse also was done
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