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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2524871, member: 112&quot;]Where did I get those numbers ? Experience. It&#039;s no secret, anybody, change that - everybody - that knows coins, knows it.&nbsp; How do they know it ? Well, to a large degree because they&#039;ve done it themselves their entire lives. But there is another way to know it, all you have to do is look at a coin and think, use your head. It&#039;s called deductive reasoning. You see there is this very simple fact - all coins tone, period end of story, all coins tone. So if you are looking at an older coin, and that coin is not toned, then you know, absolutely know, that coin has been dipped.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now can there be exceptions to this rule ? Yes of course there can. But exceptions do not disprove the rule, they are merely exceptions to it. And as is always the case, exceptions are far, far, fewer in number than the rule. Thus knowledgeable people KNOW that 80%, or more, of all older coins have been dipped.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And he is quite correct. And anybody and everybody who knows coins, knows that. Dipping a coin is always a crap shoot - always. But with knowledge and experience it can be and is done successfully - every single day.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you are failing to take into account is another very simple fact. That being that at some point in their lives just about every coin out there has at one time or another gone through the hands of a knowledgeable dealer or collector. And usually through the hands of several of them. And these people know how to dip coins, and they DO dip coins, every single day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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