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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 5373495, member: 24314&quot;]To Mike Thornton and anyone else who thinks this coin is a </p><p>beauty:&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if many of you are misinformed, have bad eyesight, extremely low standards of beauty, or just think it is best to say nice things or nothing at all.&nbsp; Whatever. </p><p>The fact is there is not anything attractive about that coin!&nbsp; Without the spots, it is still unattractive.&nbsp; My advice is to <b><span style="color: #b30000">sell it</span></b> as is and put the money into gold or junk silver. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for conservation, the only way to &quot;fix&quot; that coin is by stripping it to bare metal and than recoloring it.&nbsp; This is called &quot;doctoring&quot; and is not/SHOUD NOT be done under the banner of acceptable conservation.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for conservation offered by the TPGS.&nbsp; Some are MUCH BETTER THAN OTHERS.&nbsp; It also depends on who does the work at each service as some folks are better than others.&nbsp; As with everything else, you&#039;ll probably hear horror stories of an attempted conservation gone bad. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>ICG charges $5 for conservation if we feel it can be done.&nbsp; We also conserve about 20% of the coins we receive for free after a call to the customer.&nbsp; This happens when it is an easy process and the coin will increase in grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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