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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1801767, member: 15309&quot;]He takes common date AU silver coins worth melt and tones them up and sells them.&nbsp; I don&#039;t like that he does this either but IMO, he makes it pretty clear that he is selling AT coins.&nbsp; Additionally, he is not really defacing old coins.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t like the toning, dip the sucker and you will be back to square one, an old coin with intrinsic value and little to no numismatic value.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you ask me, the real problem with this seller is that his photography, while good, is juiced beyond belief.&nbsp; I have a strong feeling that the coins in hand will look absolutely nothing like the photograph.&nbsp; However, I have never been able to bring myself to buy one of his pieces of crap to find out.&nbsp; My guess is that he has to set his color saturation level at 50+ to achieve those colors in his photos.&nbsp; Here is an example of what I am talking about.&nbsp; This AT quarter was purchased by a fellow CT member a few years ago.&nbsp; He sent it to me to photograph it and this is the result.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Washington%20Quarters/WQ1954BUATObvRaw_zps44540cb1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now if I take that photo, crop it, cut it, paste it on a white background, and increase the color saturation to 50, you get this:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Washington%20Quarters/WQ1954BUATObvJuicedsmall_zpscf37af27.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>He has a 14 day return policy, maybe I will spend the $5 in S&amp;H to find out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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