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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 648490, member: 13650"]Wrong. I never implied that 90% 'of collectors buying toned coins' are that unaware. The line reads like this:</p><p> </p><p>"I have a feeling that 90% of the people <b>buying coins like this in the OP</b>...." </p><p> </p><p> I'm saying most people that buy wildly colored, obvious, AT'd coins don't know there's a difference or they would probably save their money for a normal, NT coin. To me, it's a form of a scam or false advertising. It's an artifical way to run up prices and move pieces that typically wouldn't move. So that's why they do it. </p><p> </p><p> I personally don't believe anybody should be rewarded with profit for purposely coloring/defacing coins. That's my opinion. People go nuts if so much as a tissue lands on the face of a coin. So there's no reason to believe somebody fooling around coloring does any good for them. It's a practice that primarily relies on deception. That is hard to argue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 648490, member: 13650"]Wrong. I never implied that 90% 'of collectors buying toned coins' are that unaware. The line reads like this: "I have a feeling that 90% of the people [B]buying coins like this in the OP[/B]...." I'm saying most people that buy wildly colored, obvious, AT'd coins don't know there's a difference or they would probably save their money for a normal, NT coin. To me, it's a form of a scam or false advertising. It's an artifical way to run up prices and move pieces that typically wouldn't move. So that's why they do it. I personally don't believe anybody should be rewarded with profit for purposely coloring/defacing coins. That's my opinion. People go nuts if so much as a tissue lands on the face of a coin. So there's no reason to believe somebody fooling around coloring does any good for them. It's a practice that primarily relies on deception. That is hard to argue.[/QUOTE]
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