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<p>[QUOTE="Drusus, post: 686438, member: 6370"]Deeeep! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> If you don't know it is fake, and possibly never WILL know...and those you thought were real that you like turn out to be fake, do you not like the look of it anymore? If I get a fake coin of a coin type I like and I dont know its fake, I don't stop liking how it looks simply because I find its fake, if I didn't like it I wouldn't have bought it. The fact its fake now lessens it greatly to my mind if not my eyes. It doesn't conform to one of the biggest requirements I have, its not authentic. If I find later it isn't...then yes...I would feel I was robbed of that piece of history.</p><p> </p><p>I assume in this case, the draw is not only the look of the coin, and not just that this effect is on an authentic coin, but also that this tone was not intentionally done by man, without someone speeding up the process. </p><p> </p><p>IMO, mother nature probably cant churn them out near as fast as we could.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Drusus, post: 686438, member: 6370"]Deeeep! :) If you don't know it is fake, and possibly never WILL know...and those you thought were real that you like turn out to be fake, do you not like the look of it anymore? If I get a fake coin of a coin type I like and I dont know its fake, I don't stop liking how it looks simply because I find its fake, if I didn't like it I wouldn't have bought it. The fact its fake now lessens it greatly to my mind if not my eyes. It doesn't conform to one of the biggest requirements I have, its not authentic. If I find later it isn't...then yes...I would feel I was robbed of that piece of history. I assume in this case, the draw is not only the look of the coin, and not just that this effect is on an authentic coin, but also that this tone was not intentionally done by man, without someone speeding up the process. IMO, mother nature probably cant churn them out near as fast as we could.[/QUOTE]
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