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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 124, member: 57463&quot;][&quot;Byron L Reed&quot; wrote:</p><p>Whenever you did a coin in bleach, gun bluing, or some other liquid, you cannot replicate those differences because the chemicals are in equal contact with all parts of the coin&#039;s surface.]</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, that was one of the nails in the coffin of collecting for me, one of the reasons I no longer buy coins.&nbsp; I was in a coin store in a small town, making the rounds, and I had been warned about this dealer who the local club would not even allow to join on threat of other founding members quitting if he did.&nbsp; And he had these silver dollars that someone took gun bluing to and they were ugly as sin.&nbsp; And he said, &quot;Someone will buy them.&quot;&nbsp; and he put them in his display case and when I came by the next time, they were gone.&nbsp; So, maybe some fool was parted from his money or maybe someone bought them, stripped them, and then &quot;retoned&quot; them to look &quot;more natural.&quot;&nbsp; Either way, it was a rip-off from the get-go, as so much of coin collecting unfortunately is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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