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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 2385600, member: 24314"]Congratulations!!  Bet you'll do another one as soon as that one is printed.  Are you going to tell us NN, CW, or the subject?  If not, perhaps a contest so we can all guess which was from you? Sorry you believe it is immoral to ruin a few Peace dollars.  Someone's going to do it eventually and not learn anything from it! That's one reason I fuss at you!  In order to know what a polished coin looks like a collector needs to be taught OR polish a coin with a buffing wheel.  And there are degrees of polishing.  In order to know the effects of baking soda or how to apply it without leaving a trace of alteration, a collector needs to do it.  In order to comment on dipping coins WITH ANY AUTHORITY a poster needs to have done it many, many times using different % of solutions and different time periods with different coins. Old "wives tales" and "common knowledge" die hard!  A former coin dealer and TPGS finalizer had to RAM IT DOWN MY THROAT with proof - (coin, after coin, after coin) until I changed my opinion about the effect "soda" has on a coin's surface under high magnification!  Besides, specialists have gone wayyyyy beyond soda!  You think?[/QUOTE]