Lincoln 1918 D ? Color

When I was a kid I used Tarn-X to brighten up Wheat cents and they would retone like this coin.

 

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I never used TarnX, but probably because I had a father who really liked a coin with it's surfaces untouched.
I bought a morgan about 2 yrs ago and was all excited a 1901 S that was in XF to AU condition. I sent it into PCGS for grading and got it back "Surfaces Tooled". I was really unset about the whole thing. Dad had come for a visit and I showed him the slabbed coin. He took one look at it and said "you didn't see this?". Grin.... I'll never forget that moment. // Bud

 

If anything other than distilled water was within my family home. Dad would get a ear full from grandpa then my grandmother on mom side of the family would also read the coin cleaning riot act. Being a third generation coin collected I had regulations to follow since 1956. But worth each min . The family collection was hand down to me my mother family owned a semi small town bank in upstate New York from 1897-1974.
That collection to my knowledge has never had any thing to change any of the coins touch cleaning wise..
My dad pass on Morgan fever to me,so I hate to hear about that 1901-S Morgan dollar .

 

I would love to see the collection. Do you have it imaged?

 

Yes Bud ,most of it that been graded+few raw ones some are posted around Cointalk. But the gold coins there is a few photo+ posted finding all the threads would be fun thing to do on a rainy day.
here one Grandpa came from Italy with 1890's. One Grandma would bring home from bank so I didn't hang out with the beat nix as she would say.I had it graded
70-80% sit in books in my 2 bank boxes + Insurance company + ANA have Photo of. back in 2010 a tornado wipe out most of my photo bank thier still locked somewhere in this old desk top computer that dies 4/07/2014 or Window XP will