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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 519347, member: 112&quot;]Boss - I could care less what the chemistry is. The bottom line is that the majority of the collectors in the world would consider any coin with oil on it as being a coin they would not buy. Now you can call it whatever you want - ruined, damaged, altered&nbsp; just about anything as it really doesn&#039;t matter what ya call it. Nor does it matter what the chemical properties are and nor does anything else matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only thing that matters is that most educated buyers would run, not walk, away from coins with any type of oil on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, OK - EAC members see it differently. So what ? I guess that means you can always sell your stuff to an EAC member. But just like the practice of harshly cleaning coins and polishing them up went away as people began to be more sophisticated about collecting coins - I also believe that the many of the practices of the EAC will also go away. It harkens back to the days when people coated their coins with all kinds of stuff (shelac, lacquers, varnish) thinking it would save them and that it was good for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Change is always hard to accept, but change is inevitable. And just like all of the other bad habits of the past went away - so too shall the belief by a few that oils are OK for coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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