"Sweating" gold coins

Hussulo

I was looking through the latest DNW auction catalogue and noticed a couple of the gold coins had been described as being sweated.
This was a new terminology to me, so I looked it up and found this in the New York Times for anyone that's interested:

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=980DE6D71539E433A25754C1A9629C946196D6CF

Here's the link to the coins in question:
http://www.dnw.co.uk/coins/auctions/rostrumauctions/auctioncatalogue/lotdetail.lasso?auction=Coins%2017%20Mar%2010&id=142&lot=143

http://www.dnw.co.uk/coins/auctions/rostrumauctions/auctioncatalogue/lotdetail.lasso?auction=Coins%2017%20Mar%2010&id=175&lot=840

Silvereagle82

Very interesting .... thanks for sharing

I always sweat when bidding on rare high quality gold coins ...

sbeverly

A fascinating read...

spoon

Interesting! Thanks!

I especially like this bit: "The profit from this treatment is small. The question arises if the ingenuity and labor thus expended would not bring a larger return if devoted to some legitimate work."

pendragon1998

I'm not going to sign up with the NY Times just to read one article. What's the gist?

spoon

That should be viewable without a paid account - if you don't want to bother signing up for even the free account, try this

Silvereagle82

Spoon,

Also interesting was the article was written in 1910 !!
You wonder how much it is going on today with gold at these prices!!

Lancastercoin

Sweating, clipping, and filing still happens.