Really ! Hmmmm, please show me examples of where non disclosure of a coin having been properly dipped has ever proved to be a legal problem ? And you are aware aren't you that it is pretty much accepted as fact by most knowledgeable people in the numismatic community that 80% or more of all older coins have been dipped at some in the life of the coin. Including those in any TPG slab. So it is your contention that removing verdigris from a coin is somehow sophistry and/or intentional deception ? Or for that matter that any form of cleaning/conservation (and yes I mean both are the same thing) is intentional deception ? Your comments would be laughable if their intent were not so transparent ! Did you even for 1 second really think there was ? If so I suspect you were the one and only person on the planet who did. Again I'll ask you, is it your contention that anyone who removes verdigris from a coin, or performs any other form of cleaning/conservation on a coin is a coin doctor ? Really ? Do you really have the temerity to even suggest such a thing ? I suspect not. I also suspect that you only have 1 purpose by even being a member of this forum. So I'll give ya fair warning right here. Either change your ways, or you will not be so for much longer !
In that particular instant case, where did the United States "government" stand and in what role? Are you confused thinking any and every civil claim brought in the government provided court results in 18 USC 3332 b type of action?
I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions from the record in toto, which you have done and erroneously so in my opinion. See post 40 for starters.
As I stated - it is obvious to me that you only have 1 purpose here. And it is not one that will allow you to be a member of this forum for long. So change it, or say gooddbye.
Exactly. If I like the coin I will buy it. Using the OP coin as an example I would be happy that someone got that off the coin, that is not something I would want to take the time to do and would not want it. The only collectors that have any reasonable expectation of knowing a coins full history are ultra modern collectors where the coins basically go from the mint right to grading. Anyone who thinks they know the full history of 100+ year old coins is naive at best, even some of the million dollar plus coins don't have full histories available.