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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3475537, member: 112&quot;]Altered Surfaces is a designation that covers a multitude of sins. This comes from PCGS and it only mentions a few of them -</p><p><br /></p><p>94|N-4 Altered Surface - Whizzed, harsh cleaning, thumbed over</p><p>(using a pasty substance to cover defects or alter the appearance).</p><p><br /></p><p>Wiping, light polishing, over-dipping, using any of the various coin care products, all these things and more are all covered by that one term - Altered Surfaces. And that&#039;s what makes it hard to determine exactly what the problem was, especially based on pics.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this case was it over-dipping ? Yeah, it could be, especially since there are traces of toning around the mint mark - but no where else on the coin. And it could also be that the toning itself is what destroyed the luster, and the dip merely made that visible. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the end what caused the coin to be designated Altered Surfaces doesn&#039;t really matter. It&#039;s quite common for the graders not to know what it was exactly it was that caused it either - but they DO know that the coin doesn&#039;t look right. And that&#039;s all it takes to get that designation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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