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"To All My Numismatic Friends----This is a wonderful post. And it has done exactly what CTcollector and I hoped that it would do---EXACTLY. At this point I want to again thank the picture posting folks. I am no good at posting color pictures so I needed a lot of help and you guys have come thru for us as if the -script had been written for you and you have followed it absolutely correctly. At this point I want to make a couple of observations. It is hard to compete with 'pretty' or 'beautiful'. It would be like telling a guy to not look at a beautiful woman or a lady not to be impressed with a nice looking hulk of a guy. And instead---go for just the nice girl or just the decent guy. But that is what we are trying to tell you to do with the coins. But to my points. First----I have always told everybody on these boards to buy the books first. To educate yourselves so that others cannot take your money foolishly. So---buy this book---It is called Coin Chemistry [ Including Preservation And Cleaning]. The author is Weimar W. White. In this book he explains an awful lot of stuff----including how in a matter of from hours to days that you can AT coins inside their holders----No matter which TPG holder you care to pick. This book contains a wealth of information that all of us should know. Now secondly, I would like to offer this out to all of you. First I would like to say that I love and collect toned coins. But how many truly \"RARE\" coins have any of you seen that are toned as these ASE are toned?? Do any of you own or have seen these 'bright and fresh colors' on say an 'early' [1916--29] Walker or say an 1889CC Morgan or say an early Bust half? Yes, all these coins will tone. But that toning is usually darker and deep within the coin's surfaces----Not bright and shiny and laying on top and over the lettering as is on these ASE coins. Coin doctors do not usually mess with truly expensive coins. They will usually fool with the widgets----the 10 to 50 dollar coins---trying to make them into 200 or 500 dollar coins. Or, in the case of certain Peace Dollars---14,000 dollar coins. Put your thinking caps on my good buddies----swallow hard---and ask yourselves if what I am saying just might be plausible?? Give me the best of it and go buy that book. Sit back and read and learn. If it is of any consolation, up until 2 years ago----I was as dumb as a post too. But I have learned and I want all of you to keep your hard earned money for \"GOOD\" coins---not just pretty ones.  Bob [supertooth] "
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