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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2686598, member: 19463&quot;]Yes, but those are two very different things.&nbsp; I have faced this before.&nbsp; When someone buys a distressed coin and tries to put lipstick on the pig, they create a &#039;situation&#039; which is hard for the rest of us to read.&nbsp; If they are the same exact specimen, it is hard to say what the truth is but one possibility is that the coin was genuine and abused heavily by some fool probably hoping to upgrade and up-price the coin with his &#039;art&#039;.&nbsp; If the two are not the exact same specimen and both can be laid on a table side by side, things look bad for both and at least one is certainly a fake.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Online resources now include images of coins taken a hundred years ago.&nbsp; When the coins in those old images show up, some of us think it is really great and proudly say our coin is &#039;THIS COIN&#039;.&nbsp; When, however, someone does something to a photographed coin (cleaning, tooling, repatination etc.) we will increasingly find evidence that something changed.&nbsp; We can live with a fool buying a coin for $200 and wrecking it so we can buy it for $100 but when a real coin is thrown into question because of this or when a real coin is allowed to be cloned, we all lose. What we need here is to know for certain if the CNG coin still looks like it did in 2014 or if it now looks like the OP coin because it actually is that coin. In one case we have two sellers whose reputation might be unfairly compromised through no fault of their own.&nbsp; In the other, someone made a mistake and sold a fake (or two).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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