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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7560724, member: 19463&quot;]I regret the use of &#039;Dremel&#039; here unless you can show some magnifications showing rotary tool artifacts.&nbsp; Some of these strike me as more likely done with a sewing machine needle (&#039;Singered&#039;) or a nail (Who is the most famous person associated with nails?).&nbsp; Who here recalls a certain group of fakes that showed microscopic rotary marks from the die cutting process?&nbsp; Are these Dremel or Dental?</p><p><br /></p><p>Anything that makes you money is good?&nbsp; Got it!&nbsp; When does a real coin turn into a fake or are fakes OK, too, as long as they bring in the cash?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for clearing that up.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps we should point out that famous paintings are regularly cleaned and painted over to fix &#039;problems&#039;.&nbsp; Statues are broken and parts reassembled to correct ham fisted restorations of past centuries.&nbsp; Dinosaurs are assembled from parts of multiple individuals with varying degrees of attention to matching the species.&nbsp; We hold coins to a higher standard --- so far, anyway.&nbsp; There are people who are happy to have these coins in their collections and willing to pay good money for what most of us call bad coins. In the &#039;old days&#039; we put substandard coins in a box and sold them to kids (like me in 1960) for fifty cents. Now we send them to artists who apply $50 worth of their time and produce something the astute businessman can sell to someone with too much money for $5000. This is progress?</p><p><br /></p><p>Not really.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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