There are ways to restore SOME Details coins to PCGS/NGC problem-free status. I have done it many times, so do not say that it cannot be done. Without giving away any trade secrets, you simply enable/accelerate natural processes. But CAC does not like restored coins, so the only green that you will see is the money from the sales and the envy of other coin dealers.
There is one dealer on Ebay (a former employee of a famous auction firm) who actually discloses his doctoring of raw and certified coins. I had talked him into doing it. His credibility and sales have increased as a result.
Our firm also reveals any conservation of certified coins (we do not sell raw coins), but it does not seem to effect buying decisions in the least, we believe because we deal only in rarities and collectors are happy to find any examples to fill their slots.
Legend and Goldberg may be the only top-tier auction firms who also make such disclosures on a regular basis.
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And I wish you luck at legitimately suing such bullies, one of whom countersued a plaintiff and his attorney who were merely trying to recover losses from "investments" in overpriced modern junk, forcing the plaintiff to withdraw the valid suit. Curiously, the bully never publicly denied certain of the allegations made in the lawsuit, which to me is a de facto admission of guilt.
By the way, what is YOUR name? Hypocritical much?
I can think of quite a few dealers here and on CU that use their business name or last name as their forum ID and if you read through you'll figure out who most are.
You do have a lot of conspiracy theories and lots of assertions about your business but I have no way of determining whether you can back up any of it or not. The industry secrets that I have read here that you have shared are pretty well known if you've read forums long enough.
Well, I've wasted enough time on this. Happy Friday!
Some of these are amenable to having toning induced by livers of sulfur when other environmental factors, such as heat, are incorporated. Such information and more has been taught at ANA Summer Seminar for over a decade, and elsewhere too. Not deep-down-dark-and-dirty secrets of the trade. Not late-breaking news.
One year I took a few lightly wiped AU Morgans and flash-dunked them in very highly diluted. When I'd done this to 1889-CC $1s from AU details holders ($1700), I had put a half dozen or more into 53 and 55 holders ($4500+). Set a thief to catch a thief, aye?
I was immersing those $20 Morgans in highly diluted bleach for the students so that they would recognize the coins they might encounter at lower price levels messed with in the same way.
NOPE !!
But a bleaching got it right back to returnable condition.