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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 640570, member: 112&quot;]Not what I am doing at all. I think just about everybody has bought a problem coin at one time or another, me included.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point is, once you recognize that a coin you purchased is a problem coin - there really isn&#039;t much you can do about it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Collectors have tried for more years than any of us have been alive to do two things - to either try and find a way to improve the way a problem coin looks, or to try and cover up the problem so that it is not easily seen.</p><p><br /></p><p>The latter can be accomplished to a degree, the former cannot. Once a coin becomes a problem coin, it will forever and always be a problem coin. Some may be fooled into thinking it is not by either course, others will never be fooled by either course. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now I know with a certainty that you personally would never try to fool anybody, that you would practice full disclosure in any case. But what about the person who buys that worked on coin of yours ? That is only one consideration.</p><p><br /></p><p>The primary consideration in my eyes is this - if after 100 years of trying nobody has been able to find a way to improve a problem coin - why bother trying ? You have a better chance to win the lottery than you do of finding success. All you do by attempting to improve it is throw even more money into the coin and waste time that could be better spent in the pursuit of your hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>No matter what you do, any problem coin is always going to be a problem coin. And it will always sell for less than a problem free example. This is not opinion, but fact. So once it is recognized that a coin is indeed a problem coin, just leave it alone, sell it as a problem coin, and move on. I mean you&#039;re going to receive less money for it in any event. And additional efforts to &quot;improve&quot; a problem coin almost inevitably lead to only making it worse. So why bother ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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