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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 94583, member: 66&quot;]I just said it was possible, I never said it was practical.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When PCGS began they stated that they would NOT slab dipped coins.&nbsp; A few years later in a Coin World interview they made the comment that sometimes they dipped coins for clients.&nbsp; The hobby community, many of whom had received back bodybagged coins because they had been dipped, squawked.&nbsp; Loudly!&nbsp; This caused PCGS to issue a retraction stating that they had never dipped any coins and never would.&nbsp; But they couldn&#039;t explain why they had said in the interview that they did dip coins.&nbsp; After that PCGS was silent on the subject, but stories continued to come up from time to time about submitters who had gotten PCGS to dip their coins ( and a couple who got them dipped that DIDN&#039;T ask for the service.)&nbsp; Eventually PCGS started dropping a hint here and there that they did dip from time to time, and that a dipped coins wasn&#039;t an automatic bodybag offense.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now today the official line is that a properly dipped coin that isn&#039;t harshly cleaned can certainly merit slabbing.&nbsp; They also claim this has always been true.&nbsp; I don&#039;t believe them, I remember when it wasn&#039;t true.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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