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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2452355, member: 19463&quot;]I have purchased coins from sellers in desert regions that I really believe have a genuine &quot;glued by nature&quot; soil/sand surface.&nbsp; I have also purchased coins that I believe and was confirmed by the seller that the surface had been assisted.&nbsp; The question is whether we each feel competent to separate the two groups 100% (or even 50%) of the time.&nbsp; There are some coins that I have bought that I am more comfortable with than others and that includes coins with other surface types than sand as well.&nbsp; Unfortunately, for those of us not skilled enough to received job offers from NGC (AKA most of us),&nbsp; it seems an easy way out to just not buy a coin with a soil surface or, my current state, not to buy a coin for more than I would pay for that same coin stripped of the soil.&nbsp; I am not proud of the situation but I am not interested in paying $40 for opinions (on $20 coins???) so it is the easy way for me.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]512485[/ATTACH] </p><p>Above is the last sandy coin I bought from a desert country.&nbsp; I have posted it here before explaining why I wanted it (few would understand that) but I determined it was worth the risk.&nbsp; You each can look at it and agree, disagree or wonder what fool would want that coin in any circumstance.&nbsp; It is a hobby.&nbsp; Try not to take the fun out of it for those of us who are tired of the tone of so many recent CT threads.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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