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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 911944, member: 112&quot;]Yes, you could say that they are condemning all doctoring. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, the doctoring is profit motivated. But you need to understand the type of doctoring that is going on. Some of these guys are taking danaged coins, those with scratches say, and then making that scratch disappear by using lasers, or filling in hits and contact marks with putty, or adding metal to the coins to add detail that was not there. These people are using very sophisticated methods that most collectors never even heard of. And they are doing it on coins that can cost many thousands of dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, they can take a coin that would cost $1000 because of the damage or contact marks and turn it into a coin that cost $10,000 by doing the repair work.</p><p><br /></p><p>These coin doctors won&#039;t even look at bottom end coins, let alone bother with them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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