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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 4046623, member: 112&quot;]It&#039;s possible. But it equally possible and I&#039;d say likely even more possible that the toning is completely natural. Ya see, people selling coins are often selling their own collections, or collections they have purchased from others. And it&#039;s quite common for coins from any given collection to have similar toning on many of the coins in that specific collection. And since that toning looks perfectly natural to me, I strongly suspect it is.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Uhhh, usually, MS70 will not remove natural toning, it&#039;s just not strong enough to do that. It will remove haze, which the very beginning stages of natural toning, but once toning has become established on a coin, it aint likely that MS70 is gonna take it off. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, once fingerprints are well established, acetone isn&#039;t going to remove them at all - even with a Q-tip. Fingerprints contain acid, and once a fingerprint has been on a coin for a while it actually eats down into the metal becoming permanently etched into the metal. And acetone won&#039;t even touch that ! The very most that acetone with a Q-tip will do is to remove some dirt that may be in the same area as the fingerprints.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now you can dip the coin with established fingerprints in a commercial coin dip, over-dip in fact, and that will remove the fingerprints. But even that will only do so because it is removing the metal to the depth of the fingerprint etching. And forever damaging the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once you can see fingerprints on a coin, your best bet at that point is to just leave them alone. Because trying to remove them is going to harm the coin far, far more than leaving them alone will.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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