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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1233655, member: 26302&quot;]I hear what you are saying Winged. Lots of them were dipped in the past, but I would wager a lot of shiny gold ones have never seen a bath also. I have seen gold coins stay fairly shiny for a long time, it really depends on the era and mint. Some good gold coin books detail which dates and mints come darker or with copper spots more often.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardign the spot that is absolutely true. Once your eye locks into something in an image its almost impossible to not see it. This is the basis of people who see Jesus or the virgin mary in an image, they can never look at that image again without seeing that. I have the problem when I do home improvement. My eye remembers every little thing I did wrong, and I can never be happy with it, since all I see is where I screwed up. Coins are a lot like most shopping, if you don&#039;t love it in the store you won&#039;t like it at home most likely.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Obviously I was not talking about 200 year old gold not &quot;mellowing&quot;, but more 20th century gold, some has some tone but some I believe is original and still fairly bright.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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