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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RBBDoughty, post: 2207492, member: 73447&quot;]Odds are, if the thief alters the proof Indian to the point it is indiscernible from its original self, then the coin would be relatively worthless. Two or three years back, I caught on to a guy who was buying high-end problem coins, like patterns, and reselling them after cracking them out of their slabs. He&#039;d buy them at Heritage and Stacks, then resell them on the bay. However, he&#039;d attempt to touch up the problem that earned them a details slab. And he was making good $$$ doing it. There are just too many factors that make it easy to identify a particular coin. Toning, strike throughs, die grease, strength of strike, alignment of the planchet to the die faces, etc. are ways that an individual coin an be identified apart from others of the same die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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