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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 25659616, member: 4920&quot;]Ah, how quickly we forget. Or, more often, perhaps, don&#039;t even have the experience enough to recall. But when I was growing up I had young brats in my coin club who could spot a dipped coin virtually a mile away. And we bargained on many of those and at times got deals on them. The old guy at the hobby shop, &quot;I didn&#039;t do it, don&#039;t look at me.&quot; Today, they&#039;re dipped the other way, to put color <i>in </i>them. Dipping to remove tarnish is market acceptable, now, lest it&#039;s a real horseship(sp?) job. How the times have changed.</p><p><br /></p><p>But however we want it, whatever, in effect, floats our boat, one thing we have to concede is, when tarnish is added to these, the expression of the engraver, which, we&#039;ll also concede, is like a sculptor, an &quot;artist,&quot; is completely destroyed. And now our eyeballs are going everywhere instead of along the controlled movement that engraver painstakingly intended, had he had any artistic skill, that is (which, BTW, if you look at most modern coins, I&#039;ll argue, for the most part, they don&#039;t). And we just lost the skill of the engraver to command that movement through the artwork, which, understand, he did, through the only element of art available to him, that being, detail. We lost the whole expression in the artwork. There&#039;s a different expression, now, half-controlled by the color. His use of detail is secondary to it. I&#039;m by no measure saying it&#039;s by any means an ugly coin, some are strikingly beautiful. But you just lost the art, the skill. And, along with it, the artist. It&#039;s like watching a colorized a B&amp;W movie. I know there are people who won&#039;t even watch a movie unless it&#039;s in color. I&#039;m not judging them. That&#039;s their business, their the capacity to appreciate. I just think they&#039;re stupid. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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