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<p>[QUOTE="eddiespin, post: 4239389, member: 4920"]Dip it. But you have to know what you’re doing. Most of the good ones are dipped, though, anyway, and grade every day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just as an aside, it’s funny how dipping is accepted, these days, when the fact is, that’s as artificial as can be. But hasten toning, and you’re a crook! Didn’t used to be that way years ago when you had to have brains to collect coins. There were those who could spot a dipped coin in a shop a mile away, and those were bargained down for it. Today, it’s exactly the opposite. We rationalize a “proper” dip as improvement, even though it’s as much unnatural manipulation as can be, while for toning, manipulate that, and you’re run out on a rail. Something don’t seem right about that; somehow...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="eddiespin, post: 4239389, member: 4920"]Dip it. But you have to know what you’re doing. Most of the good ones are dipped, though, anyway, and grade every day. Just as an aside, it’s funny how dipping is accepted, these days, when the fact is, that’s as artificial as can be. But hasten toning, and you’re a crook! Didn’t used to be that way years ago when you had to have brains to collect coins. There were those who could spot a dipped coin in a shop a mile away, and those were bargained down for it. Today, it’s exactly the opposite. We rationalize a “proper” dip as improvement, even though it’s as much unnatural manipulation as can be, while for toning, manipulate that, and you’re run out on a rail. Something don’t seem right about that; somehow...[/QUOTE]
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