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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sand, post: 8160047, member: 118540&quot;]Yes, I also avoid several dealers, who seem to apply fake patinas, and/or fake desert patinas. Either that, or those dealers seem to repeatedly buy from unscrupulous persons, who apply the fake patinas. As mentioned above, those dealers seem to have way too many coins, which have the exact same patina, and/or the exact same desert patina.</p><p>In my opinion, it really is a shame, that some persons choose to apply fake patinas, and fake desert patinas, to ancient coins. I consider fake patinas, and fake desert patinas, to be damage. It damages an irreplaceable ancient artifact, in my opinion. It is similar to tooling and smoothing, in my opinion.</p><p>Sometimes, the fake patina and/or fake desert patina are reversible. But how many persons have the time, to try to remove a fake patina, or fake desert patina? Especially if the fake patina or fake desert patina are glued on, with epoxy. And, sometimes, the coin is damaged in the process of trying to remove the fake patina, if the coin hasn&#039;t already been damaged by the application of the fake patina.</p><p>Like [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] once said, I wish there was an &quot;Ignore&quot; button, so I could ignore certain dealers.</p><p>EDIT : I deleted some of the text, and the photos, of this post, because I&#039;m not 100% certain of my suspicions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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