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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stephan77, post: 2228815, member: 74244&quot;]Hi Doug - a continuation of my previous post but I wanted to place this separately in another post.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your point: &quot;Now can original skin be definitively identified or recognized ? No it cannot, and the reason it cannot is because there is no difference between the toning that occurs at the beginning of a coins life, and toning that occurs 50 or 100 years later.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Your point: &quot;This is why, among what I shall call &quot;advanced collectors&quot; many of them highly prize the coins with what they call original skin.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Are you saying that these type of &quot;advanced collectors&quot; are attempting to achieve a hopeless task if the original skin cannot be definitely identified or recognized?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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