Posted 11/11/2013 11:23 pm
Smoothing is a form of tooling, where the fields of a coin are smoothed down to get rid of pitted and rough areas. It is easily detected and ruins the value of the coin.
Since you are grinding and removing metal, I think it is a particularly insidious way of " cleaning up " a coin.
In the old days, PCGS used to " bodybag " these coins and send them back unslabbed. Now they check them for authenticity, slab them as " Genuine " with a code indicating how they are damaged or altered , charge the customer and then send them back as ungradable.
PCGS has coded that as 98, meaning damaged due to metal movement, tooling.
Since you are grinding and removing metal, I think it is a particularly insidious way of " cleaning up " a coin.
In the old days, PCGS used to " bodybag " these coins and send them back unslabbed. Now they check them for authenticity, slab them as " Genuine " with a code indicating how they are damaged or altered , charge the customer and then send them back as ungradable.
PCGS has coded that as 98, meaning damaged due to metal movement, tooling.
Edited by denco7
11/11/2013 11:38 pm
11/11/2013 11:38 pm
