what does "smoothed" mean on pcgs details

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,926 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2014 7:58AM

  Someone smoothed the fields with a burnishing tool to remove graffiti or marks/scratches.

  Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
  "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
  "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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• lasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭

  November 10, 2014 8:02AM

  thanks perry
  
  it was a new one on me is all

  everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see
  
  
  

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• crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭

  November 10, 2014 8:26AM

  
  
  << <i>Someone smoothed the fields with a burnishing tool to remove graffiti or marks/scratches. >>
  
  
  
  It could also be a targeted polishing often with a special type of cloth.

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• crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭

  November 10, 2014 8:29AM

  
  
  << <i>Someone smoothed the fields with a burnishing tool to remove graffiti or marks/scratches. >>
  
  
  
  It could also be a targeted polishing often with a special type of cloth. PH is right but that is the extream, sometimes something a minor as hairlines are buffed out and everything in between

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• crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭

  November 10, 2014 8:30AM

  
  
  << <i>Someone smoothed the fields with a burnishing tool to remove graffiti or marks/scratches. >>
  
  
  
  It could also be a targeted polishing often with a special type of cloth. PH is right but that is the extream, sometimes something a minor as hairlines are buffed out and everything in between

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• crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭

  November 10, 2014 8:30AM

  
  
  << <i>Someone smoothed the fields with a burnishing tool to remove graffiti or marks/scratches. >>
  
  
  
  It could also be a targeted polishing often with a special type of cloth. PH is right but that is the extream, sometimes something a minor as hairlines are buffed out and everything in between

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• crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭

  November 10, 2014 8:32AM

  
  
  << <i>Someone smoothed the fields with a burnishing tool to remove graffiti or marks/scratches. >>
  
  
  
  It could also be a targeted polishing often with a special type of cloth. PH is right but that is the extream, sometimes something a minor as hairlines are buffed out and everything in between

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• BAJJERFAN Posts: 31,409 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2014 8:43AM

  
  
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  << <i>Someone smoothed the fields with a burnishing tool to remove graffiti or marks/scratches. >>
  
  
  
  It could also be a targeted polishing often with a special type of cloth. PH is right but that is the extream, sometimes something a minor as hairlines are buffed out and everything in between >>
  
  
  
  Yikes! Are you sure?

  theknowitalltroll;

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• LindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2014 9:06AM

  Isn't this place fun today.

  My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,926 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2014 9:22AM

  Sometimes a dremel tool with a small rotary brush tip is used to smooth out specific areas of the coin. The same tool can also be used for whizzing the coin's surfaces to simulate luster.

  Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
  "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
  "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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• crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭

  November 10, 2014 9:27AM

  If I keep talking like that my post count will get up there in no time

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• crazyhounddog Posts: 14,074 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2014 9:33AM

  It means WAY better than cooled !!

  The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2014 10:00AM

  The term is more commonly heard when dealing with early copper then silver.

  To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  

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• TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,645 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2014 10:14AM

  I actually sent one to ColonelJessup who was gracious enough to take the time and explain HOW to look at the coin. Then I felt like a total idiot. (not a geek or nerd).
  
  

  ``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,926 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2014 10:39AM

  
  
  << <i>The term is more commonly heard when dealing with early copper then silver. >>
  
  
  
  Early copper frequently comes with porous surfaces which detract from the coin's eye appeal and value. Smoothing those surfaces was very common at one time when messing with one's coins was more acceptable that it is now.

  Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
  "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
  "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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• Tibor Posts: 3,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2014 12:12PM

  "Smoothing" also occurs on "Dark Side" coins. Many ancients
  and medieval coins suffer from this treatment.

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• lasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭

  November 10, 2014 1:01PM

  someone needs to "smooth" this darn cloudfare trainwreck

  everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see
  
  
  

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