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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1255224, member: 112&quot;]It is a HUGE no-no ! Using a laser to doctor coins is one of the primary reasons that PCGS started their lawsuit against coin doctors. It is as bad or worse than tooling, adding mint marks, altering dates, or doing anything else you can think of to scam unsuspecting buyers. Get caught doing it and it will get you kicked out of the ANA, PNG and any other numismatic association or club. And to suggest that they (the TPGs and numismatic associations) don&#039;t care about it being done on generic coins is a very poor assumption on your part.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for how prevalent it is, most will never know. Fo rone thing the equipment to do it is not cheap. So not just anybody is doing it. It takes a great deal of experience to even recognize it. And without high magnification you can&#039;t recognize it. You can pretty much bet that there are a lot of lasered coins in collections out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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