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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 1709141, member: 17919&quot;]I am not trying to bash you around, but you certainly do sound like a novice. That&#039;s not a bad word. But you don&#039;t seem to understand what I have been trying to say--</p><p><br /></p><p>Never polish a coin. You bought it raw, you say you know a dealer who used to work for PCGS who could authenticate it, yet you took the coin instead to jewelers who polished it. It doesn&#039;t matter whether or not their polishing &quot;improved&quot; its appearance in your eyes; what you did was alter its surface after you bought it, and no dealer is obliged to make a refund on a coin if that happens.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, you seemed to think that you could get a trade dollar for melt, from some guy who paid melt for it. Yet anyone who knows what they&#039;re doing in this business is not going to sell a genuine, reasonably good condition trade dollar for melt. That should send off alarm bells right there. People here are skeptical, because nearly all of them have gotten burned with fakes during their collecting lives, and your coin looked fishy from the get-go. </p><p><br /></p><p>Once again, I&#039;m not trying to bash you-- just trying to convey two basics about coin collecting-- Never polish a coin, and if the price seems too good to be true, then it would be wise to be skeptical.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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