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<p>[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 5185492, member: 105571"]Let me tell this story even though it is only related to the thread by virtue of being about a tooled coin. I was attending my local coin club meeting a couple of years ago and one of the members who is a smart cookie and an experienced collector tossed me a major TPG slab encapsulating a Draped Bust dollar. It was straight-graded EF-40 and looked to be a very nice coin and I said so. Here was the exchange, more or less:</p><p><br /></p><p>Him: I won the on-line auction and judged the coin from the photographs which means I was relying to some extent on the TPG's grade. I am so hacked off. Look with your loupe at the junction of the field and the right edge of Liberty's hair, face and bust and tell me what you see.</p><p><br /></p><p>Me: I think I see a little line, almost like a doubling of the bust's outline at the junction. I'm not sure I am seeing what I described.</p><p><br /></p><p>Him: No, you are seeing it accurately. This coin has been tooled by a fairly skilled person for the purpose of more sharply defining the outline of the devices. Pretty well done and impossible to see from a photograph.</p><p><br /></p><p>Me: You spent several thousand dollars on this coin. What are you going to do?</p><p><br /></p><p>Him: I'm going to shove it up the auction houses's and grader's posterior and get my money back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Several months later:</p><p><br /></p><p>Me: Did you?</p><p><br /></p><p>Him: Yes and with great satisfaction!</p><p><br /></p><p>I learned another very valuable lesson from this and this time not at my own expense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 5185492, member: 105571"]Let me tell this story even though it is only related to the thread by virtue of being about a tooled coin. I was attending my local coin club meeting a couple of years ago and one of the members who is a smart cookie and an experienced collector tossed me a major TPG slab encapsulating a Draped Bust dollar. It was straight-graded EF-40 and looked to be a very nice coin and I said so. Here was the exchange, more or less: Him: I won the on-line auction and judged the coin from the photographs which means I was relying to some extent on the TPG's grade. I am so hacked off. Look with your loupe at the junction of the field and the right edge of Liberty's hair, face and bust and tell me what you see. Me: I think I see a little line, almost like a doubling of the bust's outline at the junction. I'm not sure I am seeing what I described. Him: No, you are seeing it accurately. This coin has been tooled by a fairly skilled person for the purpose of more sharply defining the outline of the devices. Pretty well done and impossible to see from a photograph. Me: You spent several thousand dollars on this coin. What are you going to do? Him: I'm going to shove it up the auction houses's and grader's posterior and get my money back. Several months later: Me: Did you? Him: Yes and with great satisfaction! I learned another very valuable lesson from this and this time not at my own expense.[/QUOTE]
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