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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1789460, member: 112&quot;]How can he tell in 2 seconds ? One word, experience. When you have enough experience you can look at a coin, almost any coin, and correctly grade it in just a few seconds. You can look at it and see if it is a problem coin in just a few seconds. You can see the contact marks, the hairlines, if it&#039;s been dipped, or over-dipped, if it is NT or AT, if it was toned then dipped and since then naturally retoned. You can see all of these things and more in just a few seconds - when you have the experience.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When you don&#039;t have that experience you have a hard time understanding how somebody who does have it can see what they see in just a few seconds. It just doesn&#039;t seem possible to you. And I don&#039;t mean just you personally BigTee, I mean many others just like you who don&#039;t have that experience.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The bigger question is - is your dealer right ? Has the coin been artificially recolored ? Well, maybe he is and maybe he isn&#039;t. It&#039;s very hard for us to say from looking at those pictures, or any pictures for that matter. But he&#039;s seen the coin in hand so that is an advantage for him. However I will say this, there are many dealers out there who do know what they are doing, and many who don&#039;t know what they are doing.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So what you have to do here is decide if that dealer knows what he is doing or not. And only you can decide that because you are the only one who knows him. Or if you want to risk sending it in anyway, or maybe consign the coin, as is, with somebody on ebay and try and sell it that way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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