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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 101058, member: 1892&quot;]I find it fascinating and rather hypocritical that one can find enthusiastic endorsement of <a href="http://www.ncscoin.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ncscoin.com/" rel="nofollow">NCS</a>, a place where you send you coin and your money to have it dipped,&nbsp; in one thread here, while in another people are castigated for inquiring about dipping a coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Zaneman, I guess by now that you&#039;re aware that, under the current popularly prevailing attitude in the coin collecting community towards proper coin care, it is considered unacceptable to remove anything from the surface of a coin. Given that collectors determine pricing through their willingness to buy, or lack thereof, it may be concluded that dipping your coin lowers its&#039; value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which matters how much for a coin you don&#039;t intend to sell?</p><p><br /></p><p>I make no judgements here concerning the acceptability of the practice of dipping a coin. I do accept the reality that you wish to successfully attempt to remove the toning on your coin. Experience requires me to tell you that, depending on the degree of toning, you may trash the coin before successfully removing it. I honestly don&#039;t think you will achieve your goal by this process.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having said that, I would modify julzboi661&#039;s instructions to the following extent:</p><p><br /></p><p>Jeweluster is the best of the available cleaners. Acquire a set of rubber-coated tongs to hold the coin while dipping. Wear latex or nitrile gloves during the process. Dip the coin for 5 seconds and immediately move it under water which is already running - while under the water, release the coin into your gloved hand and rotate it a few times, so as to get water onto the parts which had been covered by the tongs. I allow no less than thirty seconds of rinsing.</p><p><br /></p><p>After rinsing, place the coin onto a folded paper towel large enough to refold over the top of the coin. Fold it over the top of the coin once, to absorb the water on the top of the coin. Do not at any time allow either the coin or the towel to move horizontally - up and down motions always so nothing actually moves across the surface of the coin. After that, move the coin to a dry spot on the towel to finish drying in the air.</p><p><br /></p><p>Repeat the process once if the toning is not completely removed. Warning: the second dipping may be enough to kill the appearance of the coin. A third dipping will definitely kill it.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin has been dipped twice, using the method I&#039;ve described:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://members.arstechnica.com/x/superdave/1879S_dipped.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The flesh-colored reflection is my fingers, at a distance of 10 inches from the coin. Honesty requires me to tell you that the obverse is now useless, although that&#039;s because that side had already been overdipped when I acquired the coin. I was attempting to restore the obverse, and failed. My efforts didn&#039;t change it any - I only mention the fact so you&#039;ll understand that dipping could ruin one side while helping the other.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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