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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2346331, member: 112&quot;]If it was dipped correctly, it looks like an ordinary Proof coin that has no toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people seem to think that when a coin is dipped that you can see that it has been dipped. But that&#039;s thing - you can&#039;t. Nor is there any machine or technology that can tell you a coin has been dipped.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said we have brains, we can think, we can reason. So think. All coins, every single one of them, begins to tone the instant it is struck. This is just a cold, hard, fact. So if you see an older coin and it has no toning on it then it is almost a certainty that that coin has been dipped at some point in its life. That is deductive reasoning. This is the only thing that can tell you if a coin has been dipped or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now if a coin has not been dipped correctly, you can see that it has been. And it&#039;s easy to see because all luster will have been stripped from the coin. It will look dull, lifeless, flat. Even a novice collector when he looks at an over-dipped coin can see that it doesn&#039;t &quot;look&quot; right.</p><p><br /></p><p>iPen - do you have any older coins in your collection ? And for the sake of discussion I&#039;ll define older as being older than 50 years. If you answer yes, then my next question would be are those coins toned, do they have toning on them ? If you answer no to that, then you can bet money on the fact that those untoned older coins have been dipped - and you will win your bet.</p><p><br /></p><p>80% or more of all older coins have been dipped. And yes that includes all those slabbed and graded by the TPGs - all of the TPGs.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are no signs - except a lack of toning.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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