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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2661849, member: 1892"]For about three milliseconds, which is all it takes for an educated numismatist to see they were harshly cleaned. Admittedly, they were useless to begin with, but what exactly has learning how to destroy a coin done for your numismatic career? </p><p><br /></p><p>I don't care what you do to your coins. I <i>can't</i> care; they're not mine. What I <b>can</b> do is ensure that others reading this thread understand what you've done is unworthy of anyone calling themselves a "collector." You've drawn no distinction between the coins you started with and any other coin, and I'm optimistically hoping you assumed that anyone reading would know that whatever you're advocating shouldn't be done to any coin with actual intrinsic value.</p><p><br /></p><p>But not everyone already knows this, and you're doing great harm by proceeding this way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2661849, member: 1892"]For about three milliseconds, which is all it takes for an educated numismatist to see they were harshly cleaned. Admittedly, they were useless to begin with, but what exactly has learning how to destroy a coin done for your numismatic career? I don't care what you do to your coins. I [I]can't[/I] care; they're not mine. What I [B]can[/B] do is ensure that others reading this thread understand what you've done is unworthy of anyone calling themselves a "collector." You've drawn no distinction between the coins you started with and any other coin, and I'm optimistically hoping you assumed that anyone reading would know that whatever you're advocating shouldn't be done to any coin with actual intrinsic value. But not everyone already knows this, and you're doing great harm by proceeding this way.[/QUOTE]
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