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Lets say in the future one could artificially tone a coin so good that not even a professional could tell the difference and the methods were public knowledge would you care if your coin was AT toned if it looked good? View full post on CoinTalk - Coin Chat

One of the risks we take in coin collecting is obtaining truly rare coins, only to learn at some later date a new hoard of the same coin or coins has been discovered and is now driving down the value of our coins. The US 1903-O Morgan silver dollar is a prime example of this, [...]

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There are now so many fake £1 coins in circulation the Royal Mint could be forced to scrap all of the coins and reissue the entire denomination. Their warning came as new figures indicated there were £41 million fake £1 coins in Britain – one in every 36 in circulation. This is a record level [...]