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Offline vitellivs

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tooled Hadrian
« on: January 10, 2008, 03:10:04 pm »
Seller wrote:

 Nice chocolate brown patina with great surfaces, full legends and superb portrait. Old expert smoothing. Rare reverse It is rare to find coins of this quality. You WILL not be disappointed! 

 If you like tooled coins,you WILL not be disappointed  :)
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Re: tooled Hadrian
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2008, 05:39:49 pm »
Wow. :o

The reverse is hideous.

Regards, Ignacio.
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Re: tooled Hadrian
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2008, 07:06:15 pm »
Indeed.  If the seller thinks that draped pasta or wet string will pass for drapery, he is as much to be pitied as blamed.  But also that particular chocolate brown is not a hue I like to see.  Where I live, we have milk chocolate coins for Mardi Gras.  Pat L.
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