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What year did Coin Doctoring fall out of vogue?
I remember when I was a child, ALL coins were cleaned, dipped, whizzed, etc. The collection I just purchased reflected the same; tooled, whizzed, recolored, etc. What year (period) did coin doctoring become less acceptable? -
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is it out of vogue now? Coin doctoring is as prevalent now as ever, but the methods have improved greatly. -
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Coin doctoring was never 'acceptable'. Buyers do not knowingly purchase coins that are whizzed, etc. (except for a few coins that are very rare). The TPGs drove the whizzed, harshly cleaned, and polished coins to the status of dreck and helped to raise consumer awareness. Doctoring is still with us, just in more… -
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<< <i>In the year 2525........... roadrunner >> if man is still alive, if woman can survive, they may find... a non-doctored 1793 Cent! Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie Everything you think, do and say Is in the Koolaid you drank today -
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In the year 2525........... roadrunner -
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<< <i> Whizzed plated and otherwise played with coins became the bread and butter for crooked “investment houses” whose owners made millions by selling over graded and condition altered coins to the public. >> Whizzing or other metal moving actions were as despised by the dealers & collectors that I dealt with in the early… -
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Nothing has changed. -
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2047 .. and that nanotechnology will be tricky. -
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I wonder if the sniffer could detect a 1925 Peace dollar that has become a 1964-D Peace dollar? -
Re: What year did Coin Doctoring fall out of vogue?
BillJones has provided an excellent summary. The future will be even more interesting - well, actually even the present, since there are already techniques being applied that are - yet - undetectable. Cheers, RickO
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