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PCGS - Smoothed description

There is a Pan Pac $21/2 gold up for auction at Heritage in a PCGS Genuine holder that says "Smoothed" - XF Details. I have never see that description. What does it Smoothed mean?
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In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
<< <i>Perhaps there was a repair of the coin such as an inscription, gouge or scratch removed from the fields? >>
This. Something such as graffiti was smoothed from the fields with a burnishing tool or a dremel with a small rotary brush attachment.
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