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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1865King, post: 8287330, member: 103207&quot;]I&#039;ve been collecting coins since the early 1960&#039;s so I&#039;ve seen a lot of coins and have gone to a lot of shows.&nbsp; There is one thing I know and that is there are a lot of &quot;details&quot; coins sitting in straight graded PCGS &amp; NGC slabs.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are a number of coins that were given details grades but were never messed with.&nbsp; If you want to see what I&#039;m talking about look at any light colored circulated seated dollar.&nbsp; If you see a seated dollar that has been straight graded that is a light even gray color or looks somewhat washed out that coin was likely cleaned or dipped.&nbsp;&nbsp; The same can be said about any mint state seated dollar that is bright white at a minimum the coins were dipped.&nbsp; There is almost no way an early silver coin can remain &quot;white&quot; for 150 years.&nbsp; They had no way to protect their coins back then so over time they would all have toned some would even turn black.&nbsp; So, anyone that claims they don&#039;t own or won&#039;t buy a details graded coin may already have one in their collection and not even know it.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have seem many statements over the years that admit that most early coins were messed with at some point in the past.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know the numbers but for seated dollars that number could be 80 percent have had something done to them.&nbsp;&nbsp; The reason these coins get straight graded is because they are given a pass by the grading services.&nbsp; If they rejected 80% of the seated dollars they would piss off a lot of collectors and dealers so they let a lot slide by.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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