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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 992224, member: 26302"]I know I hate on slabs, but slabbing has had this effect: There used to be a lot more coin doctors out there who would "fix" coins then retone them. Since slabs, they haven't been able to "fix" coins and get away with it, therefor they stopped retoning. Maybe a lot of the knowledge of retoning died with that generation. Two dealers I knew could retone with 99% of the people not telling, one stopped because of slabbing and has passed. The other I am not sure where he is, but he is over 80 if still around. I just wanted to praise slabs the one benefit I see is that they did slow down this generation of retoners, if not for that there would be a lot more people right now who knew how to retone well.</p><p><br /></p><p>The knowledge is out there, though, like Doug says. I posted the 3 components in another thread of how to do it, but will not repeat them here. Maybe that knowledge should go away. I know a few other things, but they don't need to be let out either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 992224, member: 26302"]I know I hate on slabs, but slabbing has had this effect: There used to be a lot more coin doctors out there who would "fix" coins then retone them. Since slabs, they haven't been able to "fix" coins and get away with it, therefor they stopped retoning. Maybe a lot of the knowledge of retoning died with that generation. Two dealers I knew could retone with 99% of the people not telling, one stopped because of slabbing and has passed. The other I am not sure where he is, but he is over 80 if still around. I just wanted to praise slabs the one benefit I see is that they did slow down this generation of retoners, if not for that there would be a lot more people right now who knew how to retone well. The knowledge is out there, though, like Doug says. I posted the 3 components in another thread of how to do it, but will not repeat them here. Maybe that knowledge should go away. I know a few other things, but they don't need to be let out either.[/QUOTE]
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