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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3153891, member: 112"]I'll start off by saying the coin that started this thread has not been whizzed. Oh it's definitely been messed with, but it wasn't whizzed. And I'm not trying to be argumentative. I am trying to be informative.</p><p><br /></p><p>Over the last 15-20 years there's been so much bad information put out on coin forums and even in articles regarding whizzing that people don't even know what it is anymore. The very definition of the word, let alone how to recognize whizzing, has been bastardized, misunderstood, and totally misrepresented. In today's world, even the TPGs will label a coin as having been whizzed when it wasn't whizzed at all. And of course this has only contributed to the problem and made it worse.</p><p><br /></p><p>To explain all of this would take a lot of time and a lot of writing, and a lot of looking to find the pictures necessary to back it all up and help explain it. So I'll see if I can actually do that, but first I have to find the time to do it. Once you've seen real whizzing, there's no misinterpreting it, or misidentifying it anymore.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3153891, member: 112"]I'll start off by saying the coin that started this thread has not been whizzed. Oh it's definitely been messed with, but it wasn't whizzed. And I'm not trying to be argumentative. I am trying to be informative. Over the last 15-20 years there's been so much bad information put out on coin forums and even in articles regarding whizzing that people don't even know what it is anymore. The very definition of the word, let alone how to recognize whizzing, has been bastardized, misunderstood, and totally misrepresented. In today's world, even the TPGs will label a coin as having been whizzed when it wasn't whizzed at all. And of course this has only contributed to the problem and made it worse. To explain all of this would take a lot of time and a lot of writing, and a lot of looking to find the pictures necessary to back it all up and help explain it. So I'll see if I can actually do that, but first I have to find the time to do it. Once you've seen real whizzing, there's no misinterpreting it, or misidentifying it anymore.[/QUOTE]
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