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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stephan77, post: 2247294, member: 74244&quot;]Mercury dimes were before my time to find them in AU condition in circulation, but I&#039;ve got the Roosevelt dimes and other silver coins which don&#039;t look like that. Sometimes I could find AU 50&#039;s and 60&#039;s silver coins in AU condition, but most, except for the keys such as a 32-S Washington quarter, were bought from dealers at the coin club in AU condition, usually marked BU on the dealer 2x2, and placed in my album. But you missed the point - I stated perhaps in other environments, toning could turn out different...maybe if I had stored them in a hot attic or damp basement the toning would be different...but that different?</p><p><br /></p><p>I belonged to a very dynamic coin club and attended perhaps around 100 meetings in the past, and have attended some coin shows decades back in the 70&#039;s and 80&#039;s, and I don&#039;t recall any coins with that sort of toning back then. I would think that there would have been some Barber coins, etc, back then with that sort of toning if it existed. Perhaps that style of collecting toned coins wasn&#039;t in vogue, and dealers would always clean/dip their coins to get it off of there. Perhaps the sort of coin dips that cause that type of toning, hadn&#039;t been invented yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>My youthful collecting was done by attending the coin club, an occasional coin show, subscription to Coin World, interaction with a few fellow collectors my age we would buy and sell off each other, and that was about it for my experience. Again though, I must have looked at many, many, many thousands of dealer&#039;s plastic pages, with 2x2&#039;s filled with coins, some of course were high grade but unslabbed, and don&#039;t recall the type of toning seen regularly on the TPG high grade coins of today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh well, to each his own, if the coins were dipped, then they were dipped, and my main viewpoint is that as long as we collect coins, that&#039;s the main thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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