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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Deacon Ray, post: 2892643, member: 81896&quot;]<font face="Georgia">Greetings Johnnie—Your question is an excellent one and there is a good deal of truth to what [USER=89687]@ominus1[/USER] said about a couple of the dealers who are rather frequent <i>enhanced patina applicators</i> —however all A dealers and all Z dealers are not in the same category. Most of the dealers on VCOINS are selling coins with authentic patination. Don&#039;t include Ancient Imports in the A list and don&#039;t include Zuzim in the Z list. Both of those dealers have stellar reputations and can be totally trusted. Many of my coins are from the Levant region and the tan colored earthen mineralization is very natural.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Back when I was having my coins slabbed I had a few of them labeled &quot;Repatinated&quot; because of the applied desert patina on them. Most of the one hundred or so coins with desert patina that I submitted to NGC for slabbing had legitimate patination. I trust the opinions of NGC&#039;s Mr. Vagi and Mr. Murphy and 3 out of 100 is not bad.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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