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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Setree Rare Coins, post: 2898839, member: 74719&quot;]I recall a story I read in a publication called &quot;Confessions of a Coin dealer&quot; about a brilliant, white Bust dollar that was making the rounds at a coin show.</p><p><br /></p><p>All the dealers bemoaned the fact that the coin was dipped or otherwise cleaned and offered a buy price lower in accordance with that belief.</p><p><br /></p><p>After the coin was sold, the seller told the author of that publication about more dollar sized coins that he owned from the same inheritance.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the dealer examined them, he found that they had all been coated with a thick layer of lacquer protecting the coins (mostly world crowns from the 1770-1820 period if I remember right) and they were all brilliant white. The Bust Dollar had the lacquer removed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn&#039;t find this publication in my library to refresh my memory but just mention this here to point out that this has been a burning topic for many decades and that things aren&#039;t always as they seem.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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