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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1325158, member: 112&quot;]A few comments. I like the reference of oil on coins as being makeup on coins - quite accurate IMO. But what is the purpose of makeup ? It&#039;s to make something look better than it actually is. Same thing with oil on coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah I know, oiling coins has been done for a hundred years, maybe longer than that even. But that doesn&#039;t change anything. For any way you want to look at it putting oil on a coin is a deception by it&#039;s very definition - to make something look better than it really is. Now does that make me a purist ? If you want to think so, OK. But I don&#039;t look at it as being a purist, I look at it as me being somebody who wants to see things as they really are instead of being deceived.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for an oiled coin slabbing, yeah it&#039;s happened. More than a few times it&#039;s happened. It all depends on whether or not you can fool the graders. But submit an oiled coin and run it through the coin sniffer - it&#039;ll never grade. Coin Care and Blue Ribbon both are listed as materials that make the coin fail the test and be ungradeable.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the Q-Tip being green. Do the same test with distilled water Matt, or more acetone. The Q-Tip will be green then too. But it won&#039;t leave oil behind <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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