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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheBigH, post: 286797, member: 9866&quot;]I may be way off base here, but I think there&#039;s a big difference between an altered coin and an identified coin. Since there is currently no other process for showing the date on worn coins (that are basically worth face value or metal content), I don&#039;t see how someone innocently finding out the date on a coin they purchased or found could be misconstrued as being unethical, which is what I get from your posts. I&#039;m certainly not trying to be rude or difficult, and I have only the utmost respect for more experienced collectors than myself, but I really have to disagree. Maybe it&#039;s just me, and maybe I just can&#039;t understand the views of a devout purist, but it just seems silly to me to have a dateless coin that is good for little more than a jar of curios that may well be a rare key date, and just leave it to sit there when we have a product that can show us what the coin really is.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I respect your opinion, and I agree with you to an extent. I personally hate to see holed dateless buffalo nickels, because to me putting a hole in one is absolute destruction of the coin, but revealing a previously unknown date is more akin to cataloging than destroying, in my opinion.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks for your time, reading my likely irrelevant post :goofer:, and I can&#039;t wait to see what your thoughts are![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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