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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3016065, member: 27832&quot;]I&#039;m sure some people dip coins with deceptive intent. I&#039;m also sure some of those people don&#039;t know how to post-treat the coins to remove active agents, so their coins <i>will</i> re-tone (badly), regardless of what steps the buyer takes. (For that matter, I&#039;ve been in a shop in the last ten years that was so smoky I couldn&#039;t stand to stick around. Some people don&#039;t seem to care much about &quot;environmental conditions&quot;.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect the OP&#039;s coin had some &quot;stuff&quot; on it from the album, and it continued to react with that &quot;stuff&quot; even after it was slabbed. I&#039;ll bet, although there&#039;s no way to prove it now, that a thorough soak in distilled water and then in acetone would have slowed the process, maybe enough to keep the coin looking nice for the next generation or two.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also <i>possible</i> that the OP&#039;s coin could still be rescued if it&#039;s cracked, dipped, and rinsed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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