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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1370289, member: 112"]Look at the full size picture and it's pretty easy to see the black gunk remaining in the tight recesses of the letters, date and touch on the shield. When there is that much left in that many places, it's a pretty good bet that there was a lot more previously. And since it isn't there now then it was obviously removed, cleaned, from the rest of the coin. Also the color is bit odd, the shade of brown a bit too light, making it look washed for lack of another term. But proper cleaning is not a bad thing, in any way shape or form.  A diluted dip works pretty well on a lot of copper. You have to play with it to get the mixture just right, and then play with the timing as also. But when you do it works pretty dang well. There's a lot more dipped copper out there than most people would believe. As reactive as copper is, do you really think that there could be that many Red and Red Brown coins in existence after that many years ? If you search Heritage for large cents alone, there are 56 pages, with 50 on each page, that are Red or Red Brown. And the newest one of those is 150 years old. Now add in all of the half cents, and small cents from the past 150 years that are Red and Red Brown. And you have one heck of a lot of copper coins that have resisted the natural forces of nature - toning. Is it due to luck ? Chance ? For that many ? Do you really believe that ? I don't think so. Even in today's world, with the advanced storage methods that we now have, keeping copper from toning is all but impossible. So the only possible conclusion is that many of those coins have been dipped. And successfully so. edit - Warning -  anybody that tries dipping copper, without the requisite experience, does so at their peril ![/QUOTE]

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