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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2481009, member: 112"]I readily agreed in the original thread that based on looking at the pictures I thought it looked like PVC residue too. As for those who looked at it in hand, I can't speak for them because I don't know who those people were, or how much they know. In other words - were they even qualified to tell ? I don't know, maybe they were maybe they weren't.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I know that the folks at PCGS who looked at the coin in hand are qualified to tell, I know that the machine can absolutely tell and that there is no margin for error. And I know that if the folks at PCGS who looked at the coin hand, had they thought it was PVC residue, then they would not have dipped the coin. They would have merely rinsed it acetone, removed it, and been done with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But over and above all of that - I know that the coin was originally put through the machine because it was in a Secure Plus slab. And that simple fact, all by itself, tells me that whatever the green coloration was caused by - it was absolutely not PVC residue. </p><p><br /></p><p>THIS is a fact, not a maybe, not an opinion arrived at from looking at the coin in pictures, or in hand. This is a scientific instrument telling you, with any doubt that it was not PVC residue. And when you have a fact like that you simply can't get away from it, nor can you ignore it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ever hear me say people will only believe what they want to believe ? Well, these two threads are perfect examples of that. They have a scientific instrument telling them something with certainly - but they refuse to believe it merely because they do not want to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2481009, member: 112"]I readily agreed in the original thread that based on looking at the pictures I thought it looked like PVC residue too. As for those who looked at it in hand, I can't speak for them because I don't know who those people were, or how much they know. In other words - were they even qualified to tell ? I don't know, maybe they were maybe they weren't. But I know that the folks at PCGS who looked at the coin in hand are qualified to tell, I know that the machine can absolutely tell and that there is no margin for error. And I know that if the folks at PCGS who looked at the coin hand, had they thought it was PVC residue, then they would not have dipped the coin. They would have merely rinsed it acetone, removed it, and been done with it. But over and above all of that - I know that the coin was originally put through the machine because it was in a Secure Plus slab. And that simple fact, all by itself, tells me that whatever the green coloration was caused by - it was absolutely not PVC residue. THIS is a fact, not a maybe, not an opinion arrived at from looking at the coin in pictures, or in hand. This is a scientific instrument telling you, with any doubt that it was not PVC residue. And when you have a fact like that you simply can't get away from it, nor can you ignore it. Ever hear me say people will only believe what they want to believe ? Well, these two threads are perfect examples of that. They have a scientific instrument telling them something with certainly - but they refuse to believe it merely because they do not want to.[/QUOTE]
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