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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 174113, member: 4381&quot;]I didn&#039;t think you were doubting me.&nbsp; We can just put that sort of personal thing to the side <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Those photos you showed last time showed the crystylline structure of the metal.&nbsp; I was really impressed.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Just like the tell told structure of rock after a meteror strike, the fast hammering under extreme pressure which a coin undergoes will make a surface crystilline structure and flow pattern.&nbsp; The coin under normal conditions ages and gets an errosion pattern.&nbsp; Dipping will do something very different to the structure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those photos weren&#039;t microscopic?&nbsp; I&#039;d have to admit they were much better than my eyes could ever see without a lens.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless of how great the magnification that you might need (another experimental factor I suppose) there will be some degree of magnification where one will see the damage by dipping and it will be distuigishable from the slower process of normal erosion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Such experimentation and cateloging of results would be&nbsp; worth funding for the purspose of enhancing the understanding and the ability of identifying coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have another question, however, about this overall.</p><p><br /></p><p>What condition existed where so many of the GCC Morgans from the tresury have almost no toning and original luster because CLEARLY they do, despite the severe age.</p><p><br /></p><p>If we could find that thread, you might add it to your resources section!</p><p><br /></p><p>With kind affection and love ....</p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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