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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 552636, member: 4381&quot;]I&#039;m short bucks but spent a few minutes with my favorite coin dealer today.&nbsp; He&#039;s an older pure Brooklyn guy and I like visit in on him, and cheer up his day from time to time, whether I buy or not.&nbsp; Its part of my neighborhood thing. </p><p><br /></p><p>In his day he was a fairly substantial dealer and he has a bunch of war stories.&nbsp; He put about $40,000 worth of 1793 Dollars in my hands today to look at and seemed to have Columbia Halves falling out of the over stuffed shelves.</p><p><br /></p><p>So today he was telling me that years back that the &quot;Crazy Copper Club&quot; collectors and dealers habitually reworked that copper and engages in fine engraving work, including the biggest figures in the Copper Societies.&nbsp; Now, I trust frank.&nbsp; If he tells me it is true it is highly likely to be true.&nbsp; And he said he&#039;d found a lot of these specific coins in slabs later.&nbsp; Some of these were $4000 coins even in the late 1970&#039;s.&nbsp; So I&#039;m thinking that a lot of the old coppers have been tampered with.&nbsp; Anyone else with background on this?</p><p><br /></p><p>One guy supposedly died when he accidentally drank the artificial toning chemicals he had been using to cover up his engraving jobs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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