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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tonedcoins, post: 641235, member: 25155&quot;]desertgem, what ever you said is always in my books taken into consideration. I do disagree with you in some of the things you write though. Simply because there is a difference when you &quot;alter&quot; a coins toning by accelerating or trying to make it tone faster in any way. Now I do agree that not always can you tell if it is an AT coin but most of the time you would. Same goes with dipping a coin. If you can notice it, good. If not, then good luck. But, both are altering a coin and if noticed, it should be brought out to every ones attention so people don&#039;t buy such coins from this so called &quot;doctors&quot; period! Whether it&#039;s dipped, whizzed, cleaned, AT in any way should not be sold and there should be a law that says &quot; if you alter a coin in any way, you will be punished in the worst possible way&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now this is my opinion. I believe in collecting natural white or naturally toned coins. Whether we can prove it or not. But we will never learn how to identify or teach others if we don&#039;t try to learn the differences on how to identify and notice how they are made and done. By learning, arguing, and disagree, and agree, we will not know. By allowing people to go on their way buying this man made things and staying quiet, then why should there be real coin collecting hobby? What is the point of collecting coins if we let people make fake unnatural coins? What is the point of collecting something that should be beautiful and historical if we don&#039;t try to teach others what a natural beautiful and historical coin should be and look like? I can keep on and on with this kind of questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then again, we all have different opinions. I simply don&#039;t like coin doctors. When the day comes with a law that says &quot;if you know a someone who alters coins. REPORT THEM &amp; they will be punished.&quot; I will be one of the first to give a long list. Why? Because this is what I think coin collecting is about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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