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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1820551, member: 112&quot;]If you think that it is beneficial to treat (clean) coins to prevent further damage from environmental contamination, then how could you not also think that in many instances that dipping a coin is also beneficial to prevent further damage from terminal or near terminal stage toning ? Toning, if allowed to progress unchecked, will destroy luster on a coin just as surely as any coin dip or harsh cleaning will destroy that luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that is not to say that any and all toned coins should be dipped. They most definitely should not be ! But there are a great many coins which have very ugly and unsightly toning which few collectors would ever want, that if dipped and returned to their state of beauty would readily and easily find a home. And many more that have that terminal or near terminal toning that if not dipped will be destroyed forever.</p><p><br /></p><p>Point being, dipping is just as much a conservation effort as any other conservation effort, and maybe even more so. But just like any other conservation effort you need to know when to do it and when not to, and you need how to do it.</p><p><br /></p><p>When you consider that 80% or more of all older coins have been dipped, then you are forced to realized that dipping a coin has saved the vast majority of all of the coins that we love, not only for us but for future generations as well. It could be said that dipping coins correctly is arguably the best thing that has ever come along.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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