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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2329411, member: 1892&quot;]Conceivably. Another possibility is a planchet defect or a postmint hit. Whatever it is, it&#039;s not something dip would remove. Dipping is no good for surface encrustations. It&#039;s for removing chemical surface alterations like toning, carbon spots and milkspots.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t forget, dip is acid and literally removes metal from the coin. By the time you can call a coin &quot;overdipped,&quot; there&#039;s nothing foreign left on the surfaces, unlike the coin above which has toning and a fingerprint. Sure, it may have been dipped before, but all that stuff hides any evidence even if it were there.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an exaggerated image, and I don&#039;t really think dip caused it because of the darker contrast of the letters, but this is a good approximation of what an overdipped surface looks like:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]472118[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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