Alright, I'm going to cut to the chase here. Coin Doctoring is bad! Coin doctors have become increasingly active in recent years. What these "doctors" do is tamper with coins, to make them appear better-and more valuable-than they really are.
Natural toning happens over time and is the result of the metal naturally reacting to its environment. In the past couple of decades, we have seen outrageously toned coins commanding outrageous amounts of money.
"Doctors," fueled by greed, continually try new methods of artificially toning coins. Most of the time, these coins are easily recognizable and you should stay AWAY from them.
Usually coin doctors are discreet about their craft, but this guy is out in the open! I actually can not believe this auction, you can check it out here- Are You Kidding Me?
Wait a second..not all coin doctor's - doctor coins... your verbage(wording)is off. Yes dotoring coins is wrong..very wrong..however not all coin doctors are bad..I teach preservation and conservation..not restoration...Every field of work you have bad apples. Why group us all together in the bad column?? We have over 825k pageviews. We can't be to bad..
ReplyDeleteGreat article and always keep pushing the educational sharing button..
Take care,
Dr. Neal
Chief Numismatic Consultant
Coin Docere News Site®™
Ps. Docere is latin for doctor "to teach"
Report the auction... he has a bit of a personal attack on the second image of that auction... enough to get it taken down.
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