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Message:: [QUOTE="eddiespin, post: 3631252, member: 4920"]Thank you for a reply I can actually communicate with. FWIW, that was exactly my observation. Old copper, especially, feels it. There's even an old thread in the PCGS archives started by a member there who soaked his toned 90% silver in it to shake off some of the loose crud that formed on the coins over the years he had them. I want to say they were 90% silver halves, but I'm a little hazy on that. It was back in the days when we were seeing coin doctors around every corner, credit a PCGS lawsuit that sat in federal court for 6 months without service on any of the named defendants, and was ultimately dismissed out for it. In other words, it was a marketing stunt. Do you recall when PCGS came out with their so-called "coin sniffer," and all those just as phony "Secure" slabs they couldn't give away if they hadn't instilled that fear of coin doctors in everybody? Fear, it sells. But that toning was dulled on those halves, and everybody could see it in the before and after shots. Of course, most there wouldn't admit it. But then, that's hardly being full of any news. You want to be a good PCGS member, you don't rock the boat and question their "experts." And besides, those members got their due. They're the ones stuck with most of the PCGS Secure slabs we're still laughing off now, I'm sure.[/QUOTE]