So you wannabe a coin doctor?

Pushkin · August 25, 2006 4:38AM

13 Easy Steps to Super Wealth – A Neophyte's Guide To Coin Doctoring

Chap 1) Keep telling yourself "It ain't doctoring, it's helping the supply meet the demand", or "Everyone else is doing it, why not me?".

Chap 2) Big Blue (we aren't taking about IBM). Special addendum "Where to find the best prices on 55 gal drums of MS 70".

Chap 3) How brown envelopes and specialty tissue papers can add a little color to your life.

Chap 4) Grading service shopping, if at first you don't succeed, try and try again.

Chap 5) How big multiple submissions can make friends and influence TPG results.

Chap 6) How posting thousands of threads on TPG boards can change your image from coin doctor to respected, highly knowledgeable numismatist. Doc Coin says "if you post a lot you must be legit".

Chap 7) How to avoid getting caught by those snitches and rats that compare auction photos with your eBay and dealer sales – using PhotoShop to add and subtract a few marks here and there.

Chap 8) Making yourself appear legit while you peddle your stuff on coin forums by “showing off” pretty coins rather than using BST.

Chap 9) Adding luster – secrets of the AU to MS upgrade.

Chap 10) AT gone wrong and how to recoup your abortion by stripping copper down with acetic acid and creating a high grade Big Blue. Includes a special musical section "I Got Them Sleepy Hollow Blues".

Chap 11) Dealing with public relations problems. “666 New Excuses for Market Acceptable”.

Chap 12) Maintaining the correct mental attitude; don't let that pesky conscience spoil your fun.

Chap 13) Caymen Islands bank directory.

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BlindedByEgo · August 25, 2006 4:39AM

Can't I just check it out from the library and make Xerox copies?

Pushkin · August 25, 2006 4:41AM

<< Can't I just check it out from the library and make Xerox copies? >>

Doc coin says "Use a small digital camera and save on copying charges".

Leiana · August 25, 2006 4:56AM

Entertaining and yet very very sad at the same time.

-Amanda

Myqqy · August 25, 2006 5:01AM

How posting thousands of threads on TPG boards can change your image from coin doctor to respected, highly knowledgeable numismatist. Doc Coin says "if you post a lot you must be legit".

I wonder who you're talking about?

MikeInFL · August 25, 2006 5:26AM

How do I order? Do you accept PayPal?

ziggy29 · August 25, 2006 5:28AM

<< How do I order? Do you accept PayPal?

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Wire transfer to Nigeria ONLY, bub.

lathmach · August 25, 2006 6:16AM

So, is repairing a coin always a "bad" thing to do?
What NCS is doing, in cleaning and restoring coins, is keeping a lot of coins from being forever damaged by collectors that have limited skills and resources, by expertly conserving them.
Also, a coin that has been used in jewelry and has solder on it can most times have that solder removed with a solder sucker and or wick and be a worthwhile addition to a collection, again.
Is this bad when a coin doctor makes a repair? I think not.

Ray

lathmach · August 25, 2006 6:18AM

Oh, ..... and the backlog for getting a coin repaired is over 4 months right now.
It is definately a good business for the highly skilled.

Ray

goose3 · August 25, 2006 6:26AM

OJ didn't do anything wrong either!!!!

ksteelheader · August 25, 2006 6:41AM

Chap 8) Making yourself appear legit while you peddle your stuff on coin forums by “showing off” pretty coins rather than using BST.

This happens a lot!

Whizzard · August 25, 2006 8:09AM

Addendum: How matchboxes, elemental sulfur and natural gas convection ovens are your friends

goose3 · August 25, 2006 9:43AM

I hope you posted this across the street Pushkin.

Pushkin · August 25, 2006 9:50AM

<< I hope you posted this across the street Pushkin.

>>

Only if you'll promise to watch my back.

goose3 · August 25, 2006 9:51AM

Post, it.

It's sad, true, and comical in a sick twisted sort of way.

keets · August 25, 2006 9:52AM

the silence is hurting my ears!!!

great, insightful post about perhaps the most intriguing topic from the last several months. i wish we had one of those Andale counters like eBay uses so we could tell how many looked but were afraid to reply. just think, if the right coin guy had posted this thread we'd be to at least page seven!!

bushmaster8 · August 25, 2006 10:14AM

Well done Pushkin.

Don't forget the intro by Butch Cassidy & Sundance (AKA Saint Nick), subtitled:

Goin' to Mexico: How to Avoid the Coin Posse! Yee Haaa!

RedneckHB · August 25, 2006 10:16AM

Pushkin · August 25, 2006 10:33AM

<< I hope you posted this across the street Pushkin. >>

<< Post, it. >>

OK

michael · August 25, 2006 1:18PM

also sleph the blue dockored coins by greg to your coin friends and other coin friend dealers to sell for you on consignment and try to launder the goods

DMWJR · August 25, 2006 1:23PM

<< 

<< I hope you posted this across the street Pushkin. >>

<< Post, it. >>

OK

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Please! Goose has got you covered, and I will agree until they come and pry the 45 from my hand on this one.

IGWT · August 25, 2006 1:40PM

Have you guys forgotten that it's this side of the street where flak jackets are mandatory?

Hadleydog · August 25, 2006 1:59PM

Kind of sums it up rather nicely.

clw54 · August 25, 2006 2:14PM

<< Chap 7) How to avoid getting caught by those snitches and rats that compare auction photos with your eBay and dealer sales – using PhotoShop to add and subtract a few marks here and there. >>

That splains a couple of things.

clw54 · August 25, 2006 2:16PM

<< also sleph the blue dockored coins by greg to your coin friends and other coin friend dealers to sell for you on consignment and try to launder the goods >>

I wondered if other people would come to this conclusion.

michael · August 26, 2006 3:57AM

they are brain dead if they have noit already come to this conclusion as many have come to this thought whom never post here but go to many shows to sell coins behind tables

michael · August 26, 2006 4:03AM

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Shamika · August 26, 2006 9:00AM

I'm jeolous I didn't think of this first.

ABC123 · August 26, 2006 11:59PM

Practice--Practice---Practice !

roadrunner · August 27, 2006 3:57AM

Over-dipped, processed, and unnaturally looking white coins were often and usually body-bagged in the early days of PCGS and NGC.
They sold for discounts and were generally shunned.
So the Doctors of that era were more into adding artificial flavors to a coin's surface. Dipping was about as far as they would go.

Today white processed coins are welcomed with open arms. The doctor's have shifted from artificial coloring to stripping and waxing the coins. The services now appreciate and reward this look.
It's a strong motivation for the doctors to continue to expand their practice.

roadrunner

FullStrike · August 27, 2006 4:10AM

You need to get an endorsement from those Corn Flake kings up in Battle Creek.

Pushkin · August 27, 2006 5:07AM

<< Today white processed coins are welcomed with open arms. The doctor's have shifted from artificial coloring to stripping and waxing the coins. The services now appreciate and reward this look.
It's a strong motivation for the doctors to continue to expand their practice. >>

Doc Coin says "thank God for the grading services, they've made me respectable".

Kind of like the escort servics that offer "full service" ?

michael · August 27, 2006 1:38PM

So you wannabe a coin doctor?

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