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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3450623, member: 112"]There's a high bar on properly cleaning coins with distilled water, acetone, and xylene too, just like there is with dipping. Any of them, done incorrectly can have bad consequences because all of them leave residue or particulates on coins when done incorrectly.  But does that mean they are all bad things as well ? You are of course entitled to your opinion, but before you form that opinion perhaps you should consider the tens of millions upon tens of millions of coins that have been saved from certain destruction over the past 200 years or so - and all saved by dipping. And whether you realize it or not, it's a near certainty coins, perhaps many of them, in your own collection have been dipped. No way to know, but you can bet that some have been and some have not been. But f you want to talk about something that's a bad thing, this is probably the worst of all of them - Improper storage, and that includes coin albums, cardboard 2x2s, coin flips both PVC and non PVC, coin envelopes, is the primary reason that dipping, coupled with other forms of proper cleaning, becomes necessary if coins are to be saved. Improper storage is the bad thing. Proper cleaning in all its forms is a good thing, and yes that most definitely includes dipping. Because without it, the vast majority of all coins in nice condition that we all love so much, well, they wouldn't be in nice condition at all. They'd all be corroded beyond belief. And once one understands that , it's pretty dang hard to call dipping a bad thing. To the contrary, what we should be doing is thanking our lucky stars that somebody came up with the idea ![/QUOTE]

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