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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carterofmars, post: 106689, member: 4753&quot;]I agree with your statement concerning slabbed coins having been dipped.&nbsp; According to Scott A. Travers, At least 90 percent of all brilliant, untoned mint state silver dollars have been dipped (Coin Collectors Survival Manual; pp:172). </p><p><br /></p><p>And according to Traver&#039;s book &quot;The Coin Collectors Survival Manual&quot; on pp:171, Mint made flow lines <i>are</i> removed from a dip.&nbsp; You can see this plainly in the photo examples in the book.&nbsp; This has to be damage.&nbsp; I believe if you can remove dirt and grime build up with out altering the coin in the slightest then you have an undamaged coin... if you make even the slightest alteration, then it&#039;s being damaged.</p><p><br /></p><p>To go back to the Diamond industry example I stated earlier; I think even if you accelerate something that naturally occurs in nature (like rushing the formation of a diamond) it&#039;s artificial and has little value if any. I compare this diamond example with artificial toning.&nbsp; An artificially toned coin is damaged in my opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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