Post an Eisenhower (Ikes)

From the instructions on the bottle of MS70:

"Contains no acid. Does not give your coin that "dipped" look.
MS70 does not change the color of your coin but does remove surface contamination and tarnish. MS70 will allow the natural beauty of the original surface to show as bright as the day your coin left the mint."

You only use it on mint state coins, not coins that have been circulated. No where on the container does it say to "rub" the coin with a Q-tip. You apply it with a Q-tip by dabbing. I let it sit on the coin and then wash with distilled water and dab dry with a micro fiber cloth.

 

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This is what my Ike looked like after the acetone bath. Still blue haze. @TheMont . Are you sure the MS70 didn't do the trick rather than the acetone?

 

Did you use nail polish remover or pure acetone from a hardware store? The acetone took off the blue haze from my Ike, the MS70 gave it the shine.

 

don't take this the wrong way, TheMont, but you might as well have dipped it in E-Z-Est and been done in 1 step

 

@TheMont I used a can from hardware department that said acetone.

 

I would never use e-Z-est, that's a dip that contains acid. Try using it and submitting the coin to a TPGS.

All I can tell you, as you can see from the picture I posted above, it worked for me.

 

It's done all of the time. The dipped coins that get slabbed have been properly dipped. The ones that have not been properly dipped get bodybagged... usually... some still get slabbed.

 

I heard 80% of Morgans have been dipped. Sound correct?

 

It's a difficult figure to validate, if not downright impossible.

Considering that it is impossible to determine the population of even a given date and mint mark combination for a Morgan Dollar, I'd say that the statement is pure conjecture.

That said, many graded Morgans have been dipped.

 

A couple of mint cello Ikes from my latest batch, both 1976 T1.

 

Pretty coins.

 

Baltimore Whitman show purchase:

 

Bought this at the local coin club meeting:

 

I still need to upgrade my 65.

Nice NGC STAR Ike, Mont. I have three, and they are all desrving of the designation. Every STAR Ike I've seen has been just that- ⭐️

 

Thanks, it's the only one I have. I do have the uncirculated silver series in MS67.

 

Hey, Mont. I just noticed that the picture you posted is a coin that I own, and I took the picture! LOL. I knew it looked familiar. Did you mean to post it as a stock type photo?

 

You are correct, I did a presentation on Ike's at my coin club and used this photo as an example of a star Ike, because my photography skills aren't up to what they should be. I do have a PR66* and that's why I used this photo.. I don't remember where I got it, so it could be yours or a coin on eBay.

 

I know I posted it on CCF, but maybe here as well. Glad you were able to use it.

 

I don't know what CCF is so I didn't get it there.

 

CCF = Coin Community Forum.