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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 5346105, member: 112&quot;]There&#039;s a couple of things here. The first would be that what a lot of folks call carbon spots or refer to as being carbon spots - are not carbon spots at all. They are merely toning and or discoloration caused by something, (could be almost anything), getting on the coin and then decaying and causing the toning and or discoloration. Those kind of spots can be safely removed, or at least partially removed, by following standard proper cleaning procedures.</p><p><br /></p><p>Carbon spots, real carbon spots, cannot be removed. Real carbon spots are literally small flecks of black carbon impurities embedded in the metal during the refining process. They typically do not cause toning, they do not get bigger or change color. Those are there forever. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing in the pics posted so far in this thread are real carbon spots. But carbon spots are what a lot of people refer to them as being.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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