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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 605209, member: 2972&quot;]It might be easier, but I&#039;m not so sure it would be better.</p><p><br /></p><p>Said another way, art in the name of deception and profit is not art, it&#039;s deception and profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Said yet another way, a forged Rembrant good enough to fool many experts is still worth a fraction of the original.&nbsp; Are you saying that the counterfeit should be valued as much as the original because they both &quot;look good&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>Do the ends justify the means?&nbsp; I&#039;d like to think not, but perhaps I&#039;m wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line:&nbsp; People pay big money for NT coins -- or more properly coins that the buyer considers NT -- and the simple lack of toned, big-money raw coins attests to this fact.&nbsp; Slap an AT label on a coin -- even an expertly toned attractive one -- and it generally loses 50-75% of its value on the open market.&nbsp; That&#039;s not Mike talking, that&#039;s reality.</p><p><br /></p><p>The real will (and should) always be more valuable than the contrived, IMO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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