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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 4854014, member: 24314&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>thomas mozzillo, posted: &quot;Hope you start a new thread re your experiment. Other members will probably have stories to tell.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">Not my experiment!&nbsp; A coin dealer did it and then sent IGC a wonderful endorsement.&nbsp; If I remember the coin in a slab were returned as cleaned.&nbsp; When sent back &quot;raw&quot; the grades were the same!</span>&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Chris Winkler, posted: &quot;PCGS has this video on YouTube going over counterfeits &amp; they talk about the sandblasted look to some pennies, <b><span style="color: #b30000">similar to this</span></b>.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":vomit:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; PLEASE <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie92" alt=":stop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">IMHO, ANY <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ONE, who even thinks that coin is in ANY WAY &quot;sandblasted&quot;&nbsp; needs to have their eyes examined AND take a basic coin grading course.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">Otherwise, thanks for the link.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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