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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 999618, member: 112&quot;]Yes, it&#039;s in one of his books.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, you are entitled to your opinion. But I would ask you - did you think about what the likelihood would be for a coin of that age to have no toning whatsoever ? And if you did - how do you think that could have happened ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I ask this for a couple of reasons. 1 - Back then nobody but nobody cared if a coin toned or not. Collectors didn&#039;t care because they routinely cleaned all their coins back then, usually harshly. So if a coin toned they just cleaned it. 2 - There were no coin holders back then except for manila envelopes and tissue paper both of which caused toning rather quickly. So the coin could not be protected from toning by a collector even if one wanted to do so. 3 - These coins did not sit around in bags in bank vaults like the Morgans did, quarters were then as they are now the workhorse of the coins. They were used so they didn&#039;t get the chance to sit around in bags. 4 - Paper rolls cause coins to tone, so it could not have been stored in a roll.</p><p><br /></p><p>So just how did this coin manage to stay in pristine untoned conditon for nearly 100 years ?</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why I can say with reasonable certainty that the coin has been dipped.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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