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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 759778, member: 15309&quot;]Nobody is tarring him and he is certainly entitled to his opinion.&nbsp; However, to say that many in the numismatic world share his point of view that toning is equivalent to damage is just plain wrong.&nbsp; While Doug called him a nut, I correctly classified him has part of the lunatic fringe.&nbsp; He may be interested in prevention, but the book also spends a lot of time discussing the removal of toning via cleaning methods including &quot;dipping&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You are making an assumption as to the reason his answer would be &quot;NO&quot;.&nbsp; If you include the previous paragraph in his book the passage looks like this:</p><p><span style="color: Red"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p>For those that don&#039;t own the book, White is referring to another collector who improperly stored a rainbow toned coin that turned black.&nbsp; He is saying that collector should have properly stored his rainbow toned coin to prevent further toning just which is the same as his advice to the owner of the 1890 Morgan Dollar.&nbsp; My interpretation of White&#039;s reason is much different than yours Jim.&nbsp; He recognizes that the toning is beautiful and knows that the coin brings a premium.&nbsp; Therefore, he can&#039;t in good conscience give advice that would reduce the value of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>He does not explicitly say dip them all but just as you perceive his main emphasis to be preservation, Doug and I perceive it to be conservation, cleaning, and yes, dipping.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I promise that both Doug and I have read his book as well as other numismatic articles he has written over the years.&nbsp; The theme is always the same and always in direct contradiction with the general philosophy regarding toning among experience numismatists.&nbsp; Furthermore, he spends almost 100 pages discussing the dangers of improper storage and the resultant damage in the form of toning.&nbsp; However, he only spends one sentence discussing the dangers involved in dipping a coin improperly.&nbsp; He completes no experiments post dipping and as we all know dipped coins have very reactive surfaces and can re-tone very quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know about Doug, but I will continue to call him a member of the lunatic fringe until that ceases to be true.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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