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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Boss, post: 541001, member: 15110&quot;]I absolutely agree with you Thad. WE ALL HAVE BOUGHT PROBLEM COINS!!!! Question is what to do with them. They are not worthless, just WORTH Less. Cleaned S VDB&#039;s still go for $700-1000 in genuine holders at times depending on eye appeal. Worthless?? Hardly. Many would pay $700 for a cleaned EF rarity than pay $1300 + for the same grade coin uncleaned if funds were tight and they really wanted the coin and that&#039;s the most they could afford (aren&#039;t we all poor nowadays??). If we can improve the look of these coins to more natural why would we leave them ugly- I am mostly responding to GD&#039;s post. I don&#039;t understand such a response. I think we should all try to tone our damaged, scratched coins in order to have a pretty coin for the future. Heavily toned coins hide damage. We all know that and some of those coins go for big money. As long as we don&#039;t dip the coin, who cares. An attractive coin is an attractive coin. A freshly dipped pink/pumpkin Lincoln is bottom line ugly. If one could improve the look of such coins why would we leave them ugly. Look at all the Barber dimes/quarters that are heavily toned with beautiful colors-blues, reds, magenta, etc.. Are they scratched, rubbed, scrubbed under that toning? We would never know unless we dipped them. Dipping should always be done knowing you might get a thrashed coin afterward. Dip at your own risk. I have never dipped a valuable coin. I only do on low value coins for my learning. I have some badly carbon spotted coins that I inherited with 63 reverses and damaged obverses. I have dipped those for fun. They were only worth melt. Just my humble thoughts. </p><p>By the way I sent the S VDB to NCS. I know what I said about NCS but I believe they are good at these type of coins. Doug said you need to know what type of coins to send. This was is one of them in my opinion. I know they are good at getting off ugly toning which my coin has and I know what&#039;s under this coin. I have acetoned all the oil out of it and have seen it as raw as can be. If they get off that gray look I will be elated. If it comes back very light or cleaned looking that&#039;s ok. I will get it retoned. I won&#039;t quit this coin!!</p><p>Marked for them to send to NGC if it will grade. I will start a new post when it&#039;s back. Hopefully all can learn from my shanangains- is that how you spell that??</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:whistle::crying::mouth:<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />hya:<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />encil::headbang::desk:<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:kewl::vanish::smile:hail::bigeyes::goof:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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