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<p>[QUOTE="Leadfoot, post: 190773, member: 2972"]First off, how do you know it really has altered surfaces? I assume the answer is a TPG told you so...and judging from the photos, my guess is the coin has been recolored.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would not sent it to NCS. They will unlikely be able to do much with it, and there are far more skilled coin doctors among the EAC folks than NCS has, so if improvement of the coin were your intent, I'd find a good EAC guy and solicit their advice. To wit, and if you are a member of the NGC forums (if I may be so bold as to mention another coin forum), there's a guy on that forum named Hoot who is extremely knowledgeable on this topic and is also a heck of a nice guy, so my advice to you would be to solicit his help -- tell him that MikeInFL told you to contact him.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that being said, if I were you, I'd just get an airtite with the white insert and enjoy your coin in that manner and not have it "improved" at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just MHO, respectfully submitted...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Leadfoot, post: 190773, member: 2972"]First off, how do you know it really has altered surfaces? I assume the answer is a TPG told you so...and judging from the photos, my guess is the coin has been recolored. I would not sent it to NCS. They will unlikely be able to do much with it, and there are far more skilled coin doctors among the EAC folks than NCS has, so if improvement of the coin were your intent, I'd find a good EAC guy and solicit their advice. To wit, and if you are a member of the NGC forums (if I may be so bold as to mention another coin forum), there's a guy on that forum named Hoot who is extremely knowledgeable on this topic and is also a heck of a nice guy, so my advice to you would be to solicit his help -- tell him that MikeInFL told you to contact him. All that being said, if I were you, I'd just get an airtite with the white insert and enjoy your coin in that manner and not have it "improved" at all. Just MHO, respectfully submitted...Mike[/QUOTE]
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