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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2896968, member: 112&quot;]When it comes to what is or what is not ethical, just about everybody will have different ideas. But consider this. Pretty much every person who owns older coins, owns coins that have been dipped. And no, that is not an exaggeration, just a simple statement of fact. Fully 80% or more of all older coins have been dipped at least once, and many more than once, over the course of their lives. And yes that includes all of those MS coins you see in TPG slabs. The TPGs themselves will dip coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Dipping coins is and always has been an acceptable practice in the numismatic community. Dipping coins is no different than rinsing them in distilled water, or acetone, or xylene. And does everybody tell everybody else when they do that ? No of course not. Why not ? Well because they haven&#039;t done anything wrong, they haven&#039;t done anything that is unethical. They haven&#039;t tried to take advantage of anybody or deceive anybody by dipping or rinsing the coins, and they haven&#039;t damaged the coins. In effect all they have done is to remove contaminants from the surface of the coins. So what about it could possibly be unethical ?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I won&#039;t say it&#039;s impossible but it is highly unlikely. I say that because literally tens of millions of coins have been dipped and months, years, and even decades afterwards they are not stained. I can pretty much guarantee that many of the coins you own have been dipped - are they all, or even any of them stained ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Simply put, when dipping is done correctly nothing happens afterwards except for the coin to begin the natural toning process all over again. There are only three scenarios where dipping a coin can turn out badly. 1 - when the toning has already done irreparable damage. 2 - when the coin is over-dipped, is other words when the dipping is not done correctly. And 3 - when the dip solution is not neutralized after dipping, or in other words when the dipping is not done correctly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line, as long as the dipping is done correctly the coin will suffer no ill effects except for when scenario #1 has already occurred. And even then the person dipping the coin still hasn&#039;t done anything wrong. And I say that because there is no way that anyone can ever know that scenario #1 has occurred unless they dip the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of people seem to have this idea that dipping a coin is a bad thing, that it is harmful to coins. Well it isn&#039;t, it is a protective measure. If coins were not dipped most of the older coins that everybody owns would be nothing but ugly dark brown or black blobs instead of the beautiful coins that they so greatly admire and care for. Learning how to dip coins and do it properly is arguably one the best things that has ever happened to coin collectors. Problem is many of them don&#039;t even know it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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