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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TomCorona, post: 642603, member: 17621&quot;]I guess all I can do here is agree to disagree,&nbsp; I do appreciate you taking the time to write such a lenghty response and I also appreciate where you&#039;re coming from as far as perspective. I just have a real hard time believing that your view has to be the case, every time, no matter what the circumstances. Maybe because I collect mostly circulated coins is the reason I think that way. I just figure that if a coin can circulate for years and years and years ,with everybody&#039;s hands all over it, and it&#039;s been who knows where, I can&#039;t see that trying to improve it&#039;s eye appeal can always be wrong. I know the grade will be the grade. That&#039;s not why I would want to mess with it in the first place. I&#039;m also not talking about shining, buffing, or going to some other ridiculous length..just talking about improving it&#039;s looks, maybe a little. Doctoring, re-toning, overdipping, all that kind of stuff I can easily see your point. But, getting rid of a foreign substance, be it dirt, grease, bodily excrement...who knows what. It can be &quot;professionally&quot; restored so, there has to be a medium method there somewhere, and what that method exactly is, every time, may or may not be the same every time, depending on a number of factors, of course. Circulated coins become problem coins as soon as they hit circulation as I see it. My 1909S VDB in relatively good shape? I&#039;m not gonna touch it (no offense Boss), but my circulated non-key cents...why not? If I ruin a few learning, so much the better. Maybe that&#039;s the rub...maybe I&#039;m, we (some of us) are spending time on coins that are not worth great sums of value are not worth messing with, in your opinion, and that&#039;s cool too., eye of the beholder thing and all. I love opinions, and I know that you believe, obviously, very convinced of your stance. Great. I just believe absolutes like that are faulty. Like I say, agree to disagree I suppose. Thanks much for the input and I don&#039;t totally dismiss your views. I just think they can be &quot;cleaned up&quot; a bit more towards my view.</p><p>PS..Thanks Boss for the moral support there. You&#039;re alright bud.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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