Mimmicking the next big market niche, originality!!!!!!!
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Most discussion about AT and Coin Doctors seems to center on ends of the spectrum, the poles, if you will: brilliant white coins and attractively toned coins. It's almsot as if nothing exists(which is acknowledged) between those extremes which appeals to hobbyists that could be duplicated in the laboratory. I wonder though, is there?? The chant which grows stronger every day is for originality, just look at the Featured Dealer up at the top of the page!!!! There's really nothing wrong with that except that the term itself is so vaguye as to render it almost meaningless, at least in my mind. What makes it even worse is that many of the brilliant coins and many of the toned coins which are purported to have been either dipped or AT'd are actually original.
What strikes me as viable is that the "doctors" probably know how to mimmick the crusty, original surface quality which so many are starting to look/ask for. I mean, really, what do you think it'd be harder to place on a coins surface, vibrant and attractive color or the dull gray/splotchy brown and gold colors that are the hallmark of an original coin if the proponents of same will teach you??? Would it be that difficult to add a little verdigris in the lettering and recesses of the devices or even the reeding just for enhancement and legitimacy?? My instincts tell me that it's already being done as the next new wave to supply the hobby witht what it demands. let's face it, charcoal gray should be a walk in the park if banded rainbow can be replicated, right???? To further things in the direction of plausibility, the supply of unmoveable circ type taht's dipped white is unbelieveably large, just waiting to be bought at a steep discount and cooked to meet the need.
So, what say you, forum??? Are we poised on the edge of the next big scandal which I affectionately call Mimmick-gate™ or am I engaging in wild speculation??
Al H.
What strikes me as viable is that the "doctors" probably know how to mimmick the crusty, original surface quality which so many are starting to look/ask for. I mean, really, what do you think it'd be harder to place on a coins surface, vibrant and attractive color or the dull gray/splotchy brown and gold colors that are the hallmark of an original coin if the proponents of same will teach you??? Would it be that difficult to add a little verdigris in the lettering and recesses of the devices or even the reeding just for enhancement and legitimacy?? My instincts tell me that it's already being done as the next new wave to supply the hobby witht what it demands. let's face it, charcoal gray should be a walk in the park if banded rainbow can be replicated, right???? To further things in the direction of plausibility, the supply of unmoveable circ type taht's dipped white is unbelieveably large, just waiting to be bought at a steep discount and cooked to meet the need.
So, what say you, forum??? Are we poised on the edge of the next big scandal which I affectionately call Mimmick-gate™ or am I engaging in wild speculation??
Al H.
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<< <i>chant which grows stronger every day is for originality, just look at the Featured Dealer up at the top of the page!!!! >>
Where there's a demand, there will almost certainly be an effort made to accommodate it.
<< <i>Nothing is safe, there is no garauntee. Collect what is appealing to your eye. >>
Right on.
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Totally agree, after reading Numismatic Forgery, by Charles Larson, what is real?
It's harder to explain than to show - there are coins I believe to be "original" but, with an appearance that's not all that great, despite it - particularly on nickels. Those that make the grade are few, and far between.
I knew it would happen.