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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2939328, member: 112&quot;]The answer to that is maybe.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it might.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Actually it can be both. And in fact often is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ya see this is what I was trying to explain above - there are always a wide range of variables. And it is those variables that determine the outcome.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin you posted above for example. It is an unnatural color for those coins. This leads me to believe that coin was dipped, but dipped improperly for copper, and that is what produced that unnatural color and resulted in the questionable color designation.</p><p><br /></p><p>But here&#039;s the thing, if you were to crack it out and send that coin back in, to the same company, there is a possibility it could get a clean grade. That exact scenario has happened before - many times. And it may get a clean grade because different graders looked at it the 2nd time. Or, it might get a different grade the 2nd time because a enough time had passed in between the submissions for natural toning to occur and change the look of the coin. So that by the time the 2nd set of graders saw it, it looked perfectly natural. Or you could send it to a different TPG and they might just clean grade it - or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line, it&#039;s always a crap shoot because there is no way to categorically prove anything. All they can do is guess.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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