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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 7893551, member: 24314"]It's a cat & mouse game. From what I observed, for a while in the eighties and nineties both major TPGS were slabbing recolored copper as original red. I named one of the deceptive treatments we saw "micro whizzing" as it was a "mechanical" rather than chemical alteration. </p><p>IMO, all the major TPGS do a much better job now and I rarely encounter any raw or slabbed micro whizzed coins anymore.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 7893551, member: 24314"]It's a cat & mouse game. From what I observed, for a while in the eighties and nineties both major TPGS were slabbing recolored copper as original red. I named one of the deceptive treatments we saw "micro whizzing" as it was a "mechanical" rather than chemical alteration. IMO, all the major TPGS do a much better job now and I rarely encounter any raw or slabbed micro whizzed coins anymore.[/QUOTE]
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