It pays to check your coins before buying!

goingbroke

I ran across this post and I must say, this guy sure knows how to alter coins!Text

OPA

Interesting old thread...not sure if the author still posts though. Has anyone heard of a "art bar or PM doctor?"

dcarr

Here was my post in that thread:

Any competent coin grader would catch that in a second ... as an altered-surface coin.
Coin carvers typically sandblast the work to hide the tooling marks, leaving a matte finish,
as on the coin shown.