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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1000983, member: 112"]Yeah it could have happened. But using lacquer was not really done until the '40s & '50s. How did the coin remain untoned for 20 or 30 years ? Guys the issue is this - when a coin is minted it starts toning in that instant. before the coin can hit the hopper it falls into it starts to tone. Now that sounds extreme, but it is true. There is no time delay, not 1 second. As soon as the coin is exposed to the air it starts to tone. No you can't see it with the naked eye in the early stages, but the toning is happening. And unless the coin is stored in a manner to protect it from toning when it is still very new then it will be toned. And since they had no storage methods back then to do this - the coin would have to be toned. Now as I have said numerous times already, yes anything is possible. But how many times is anything possible ? Enough to explain all the blast white exaamples of this coin ? Gimme a break. Thus we must concede that these coins have been dipped. Sure all collectors want to believe that they are the one who owns the one in a million coin that somehow survived original and untoned for nearly a hundred years. But the reality is that almost all of them are wrong. They own dipped coins. And there's nothing wrong with that.[/QUOTE]